148 NOTES AND QUERIES. Fenevary 26, 1938,
My sister & I am at present with Mrs. | Company’s cruizer ‘‘ Ternate,’’ who departed
Baillie who to offer her best regards & | this life the 20th February 1828, aged 3%
condolence to Lady Beaumont, whose afflic-
tion she can sympathize with most truly.
Believe me,
My dear Sir George
your obliged & faithful friend & servant,
J. Baillie.
Sir George Beaumont Bart
Coleorton Hall
Ashby de la Zouch Leicestershire,
Denys Sutton.
Exeter College, Oxford.
THE BRITISH CEMETERY AT
BASSADORE.
BASSADOR E, or Basidu,
Gulf,
which has the advantage of an_ excellent
harbour, is situated at the point forming the
north-west extremity of Kishm; aq short
distance within the point stand the ruins of
the once flourishing Portuguese town of
Bassadore... At the time of the abolition
of the Indian Navy (1863), the service buildings
at Bassadore consisted of a hospital for invalid
seamen, a store-house containing ships’ stores,
a cooper’s shed, a forge, and a house for the
small guard of the (Bombay) Marine Battallion
stationed here. There were also three water
reservoirs, a small bazar for the supply of
stores for the ship’s companies, the house of
Kadadah the Persian merchant who catered
for the officers of the squadron, and a small
village... There were two or three houses
belonging to the officers, including the com-
modore’s residence, where there was a flagstaff
for the display of the Union Jack, and finally
a depot for a few hundred tons of coal brought
from Bombay for the use of Hon. Company’s
ships of war. (‘Hist. of the Indian Navy,’
Low, 1877, i. 387).
The following list of monumental inscrip-
tions in the British cemetery at Bassadore
was kindly given me by Lrevt.-Cov. F. B.
Priveavx, C.S.1, C.LE., formerly British
Resident in the Persian Gulf, and is in part
based on a list made in 1909.
1. Sacred to the memory of Mary ANN
Matrtuarp, wife of Captain C. J. MAILLARD,
of the H.C. Marine, who departed this life
at Bassidore the 26th Decemb 1823, aged
29 years, after a severe and lingering illness
which she bore with exemplary resignation.
She was an affectionate and faithful wife
and esteemed by all who had the happiness
of her acquaintance.
2. Sacred to the memo:
E. Rocers, late Comma:
in the Persian
of Lieutenant W.
ing the Honourable
years. Deeply regretted by his brother
officers by whom this stone is erected as a
mark of their esteem and respect for his pub-
lic and private services,
3. Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant
Avex. Forp, I.N. late in command of H.C.
schooner ‘‘ Constance’? who died the 17th
December 1854 [or 1845] aged 28 years. Much
Ss Hee by his brother officers by whom this
let is erected.
4. Sacred to the memory of Jas. ANDREWs
purser’s steward of the H.C. schooner “ Con-
stance’? who died 28th May 1853, aged 24
years. This is erected by his shipmates as a
tribute of respect to his memory.
5. Sacred to the memory of WrILt1amM James
Campsett, Lieutenant Indian Navy, aged 31
years, who died on the 28th October 1856 while
commanding the Honourable Company's
schooner ‘‘ Constance ’’ then stationed in the
Persian Gulf.
6. Sacred to the memory of Ricnanp
Marsn, sailmaker, H.M.S. ‘ Auckland,”
who died August 1861, aged 33 years. Erected
by his shipmates in token of their respect.
- ager plate was put up in 1906 by
-M.S, “Sphinx” as the carving was very
worn].
7. Sacred to the memory of Henry C.
Rawie, Indo-European Telegra hh = Depart-
ment, who died on board H.M. steamer
“Hugh Lindsay ” rae pared Marine]
off Lingah August 16th 1865, aged 26 years.
8. Sacred to the Memory of T. Masons...
H.M.S, . . (rest. illegible).
9. Sacred to the memory of Writ1am Henry
Keitx Brumpy, Asst, Surgeon, Lingah. Died
1st March 1912, aged 35.
10. This monument has been erected by the
Government of India to the memory of those
named and unnamed dead of the Royal
Navy, Indian Navy and the other Govern-
ment Services, who died while serving their
country in the Persian Gulf, and whose re-
mains lie buried here, lest the’ past be for-
gotten.
British Basidu, June, 1913.
(On reverse of monument).
Mary Ann Marttarp, wife of Captain C.
J. Martrarp, of H.E.I.C.M., 1823.
Lieutenant Atex. Forp, I.N., 1845.
Lieutenant Witriam James CaMPBeLt,
L.N., 1856.
A.B. Ricuarp Manrsu, H.M.S. “ Auck-
land,”’ 1861.
H. C. Rawze, I.E.T.D., 1865.
Fesrvary 26, 1938,
NOTES AND QUERIES. 149
James Anprews, H.E.1.C.M.
Others whose names are obliterated.
The list given in No. 10 is by no means
complete, and a very small amount of research
discloses the following further names of
officers who died at Bassadore and were doubt-
less buried there ;
11. Captain Tuomas Extwon, Indian Navy,
commodore in the Persian Gulf, died at Bas-
sadore 17 June 1835, and was ‘‘ buried under
the dining-table in the Commodore’s House
at Bassadore.”” (Low, op. cit., ii., 70, 109).
12. Assistant Surgeon Lioyp Wacker,
Bombay Medical Establishment, d. 8 Sept.,
1824.
13. Assistant Surgeon Jonn Top, Bombay
Medical Establishment, d. 6 Nov., 1822.
14. Assistant Surgeon Wittiam Trovp,
Bombay Medical Establishment, d. 30 Nov.,
1825.
H. Butxock,
Lieut.-Col.
FAMILY NAMES FROM OLD
DOCUMENTS.
(See ante p. 82).
Serrnary (Suffolk, 1538-1544), E.C.P. 1030
(20).
E.C.P. 1061
wall } (Suffolk, 1538-1544) {a4
= 1069
P ce leosmaane from tehhoce in Nor-
folk ?)
| aw (London, 1486-1515), E.C.P. 165
).
Sevor (Norfolk, 15th century ?), E.C.P.
| 1513 (3).
(Diminutives of Sell?)
Sexcor (Devon, 1276-7), Chancery Criminal
oaetir 17 (6).
gg Ciwilta 1547-1551), E.C.P., 1273
ies (Wilts, 1397), Chancery Inquisitions,
Miscellaneous, 265 (7), rental of Keevil.
(Cf. Old English Seotca.)
Stor. See SELer.
Seiovs. See SEzas.
Seypy (Suffolk, 1544-7), E.C.P., 1101 (1).
(=Sandy, place-name ?
on (Bedford, 1547-1551), E.C.P., 1205
(Cf. Surridge ?)
Sercer (Dorset, 1544-7), E.C.P., 1102 (51).
(~maker of serges or of wax candles ?)
Srrtyy (Devon, 1475-1485), E.C.P., 53
(197).
(Form of Sartain ?)
Sevecar alias Sucar (Somerset, 1555-8),
E.C.P. 1468 (21).
ne (Devon, 1555-8), E.C.P., 1454
(=St.-Lé?)
Swaverosse (Chester, 1538-1544), E.C.P.,
1062 (31).
(Error for Shalcrosse ?)
nie (Lincoln, 1544-7), E.C.P., 1108
(Place-name from Challock in Kent ?)
Suarrour (Devon, 1529-1532), E.C.P.,
675 (37).
Suarrer (Devon, 1844), Record of Old
Westminsters.
( = tailor, from ‘‘ shape"’? Cf. Shap-
ster.)
Smaturtey (London, 1538-1544), E.C.P.,
1072 (19).
(Place-name from Chatterley, Co. Staf-
ford, or Satterleigh, Co. Devon?)
Suave (Chester or Derby, 1533-8), E.C.P.,
895 (27).
SnemyncG (Kent, 1547-1551), E.C.P., 1265
).
(Hardly Manx at this date. C/. Shim-
min.)
Suerner (Kent, 1538-1544), E.C.P., 898
(30)
( =sheath-maker ?)
Surtte (Suffolk, 1533-8), E.C.P., 895 (33).
(Shill is explained by ‘ N.E.D.’ as mean-
ing “‘ shrill,’ and by Wright as “‘ chill.’”)
Surmwett, London Directory, 1928.
(=Shemeld ?)
— (Essex, 1504-1515), E.C.P., 361
(To “ shrag ”
‘ E.D.D.’) ae
Suyston (Salop, 1538-1544), E.C.P., 1072
(1).
Srperrin } (Somerset, 1538-1544), E.C.P.
Surrreryn ) 1023 (68-69).
(Place-name = southern fen?)
S1ccee (Gloucester, 1937), Daily Telegraph.
Srspeners, Sypeners (Somerset, cir. 1923),
P.R.O. Ancient Deeds, B. 9590.
( = sixpences, Cf, other surnames mean-
ing sums of money.)
oe (Suffolk, 1538-1544), E.C.P. 974
(
(Placename from Scalby, Co. York?)
— (Salop, 1544-7), E.C.P., 1118
(35).
trees is to lop them. See
JOURNAL
TATIC SOCIETY
1919
ROYAL AS
XI
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS IN THE ARMENIAN
CEMETERY AT ISFAHAN
By Linor.-Cononen T. W. HAIG, C.M.G.
pes Armenian cemetery at Isfahan is an arid and
waterless tract of desert Jand lying to the south of
the city, between the Armenian suburb of New Julfa and
the high hill known as the Kih-i-Suffah, and was granted
to the community by Shih ‘Abbas the Great (1587-1629),
who transported the colony of Armenians from Julfa on
the Araxes to his capital and granted to them the tract
of land on the southern bank of the Zayandah Rad,
opposite to the city, where the suburb which they named
after their old home in Armenia now stands. Here they
have enjoyed, from the time of Shih ‘Abbas, various
privileges, not uninterrupted by periods of oppression and
persecution. They have been allowed to build churches,
of which the suburb now contains twelve, including All
Saints’, the Cathedral Church of the extensive Armenian
diocese of Persia and India, to practise their religion
freely, and even to offend the ears of pious Muslims with
the sound of church bells. As the only domiciled
Christian community they have ever shown hospitality to
foreign Christians visiting or living in Isfahan, have
aRAs. 1919, 22
322 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
publicly welcomed the envoys of Christian states, and
have freely allowed foreigners the privilege of Christian
burial in their cemetery, which even contains the graves
of missionaries sent to Isfahan for the purpose of
disturbing the unity of their ancient National Church.
Englishmen, Swiss, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Russians, and
Portuguese lie buried here, besides one Pole and one
Greck, and there are some tombs without epitaphs which
are undoubtedly those of foreigners. The dry climate
of the Persian plateau has preserved the epitaphs so well
that nearly all of them are as legible as when freshly cut.
The oldest foreign tomb is that of an Englishman, and
bears the following inscription :-—
i
Gulielmus Bell
Joan. F. Northumbri—
Apud Regem Abbas
Pro Anglia Agiens [sic]
Afio Dili 1624 Aet. suae
83 mensis Feb. die 24
Ispahani defunctus.
Ad pium peregrinum :
Hexastichon
Vive domi sed vive Deo, sic sera Senectus
Colliget ad charos membra soluta patres.
-Longinquis vitam dum conor quaerere regnis
Heu juvenem incautum mors inopina premit.
Sed Christum vivens colui, moriensque vocavi,
Et vixi quantum vixerat Ile. Sat est.
Translation
William Bell, son of John (Bell), a Northumbrian, Agent for
England at the Court of Shih ‘Abbis. Died at Isfabin
February 24, 4.p. 1624, in the 88rd year of his age.
To the pious pilgrim :
Hexastich
Roam not; but live to God, so tardy Age
Shall gather to thy fathers thy remains.
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 323
I sought my livelihood in realms afar,
And death untimely punished my rash youth.
Christ loved I living, dying invoked His name:
My years have equalled His. It is enough.
IL
Near this grave, on the southern side of the cemetery,
is the grave of another Englishman, hearing nothing but
the name of the deceased, as follows —
WILLI
MWEAL
E.
1
In the same neighbourhood is the grave of a third
Englishman, bearing a much more elaborate inscription :—
Memento mori
Hie iacet insignis Doctor R" Edvardus Pagett, Anglus,
SS” Trinitatis Collegii apud Cantabrigiam Socius.
Theologus et mathematicus lustrabat orbem ter™"
Ut divina cognosceret et mundana ;
Sed, mundum vere repntans ut punctum,
Extendebat lineas ultra tempus
Ut pulchrum ex acternitate cireulum formaret.
Tandem quinqnagonarius ultimo puncto vitam clausit,
In patriam per torram redeuntem sistebat Mors ;
Obiit enim Spahani die 21 Janu" A° 1702 sec styl. vet.
Abi viator et ab insigni Doctore
Disce in tempore acternitatem.
Translation
Remember death
Here lies the famous Doctor, the Reverend Edward Pagett,
an Englishman, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
A theologian and a mathematician, he reviewed the earth that
he might acquire a knowledge of matters divine and mundane,
but regarding the world, indeed, but as a point, he produced his
lines beyond time that he might describe a fair circle from
eternity. At length, at the age of 50, he closed his life with
324 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
its last point, and death fixed him as he was returning homeward
overland ; for he died at Isfahan Jan. 21, 170% 0.8.
Depart, traveller, and from the famous Doctor learn, in time,
to understand eternity.
I much regret that I have access to no books of
reference likely to thrown any light on the history of
these three Englishmen. The records of the East India
Company would probably yield some information and of
Dr. Pagett, who was a Doctor of Divinity and a Fellow
of his College, and bore a well-known English name,
something might be learnt from the archives of Trinity
College and possibly from family histories. He was
possibly a Nonjuror, seeking in travel a means of escape
from English polities.
Near these graves are three bearing French epitaphs,
as follows :—
Iv
Gi git
Louis
Rouper
Lorain
Orféyre
Décédé
Lifan] 1678.
Translation
Here lies Louis Rouper, a Lorrainer. Goldsmith. Died in
1673.
Vv
Cy git
Michel
Bourri
Suisse
Décéaé
L'an
1673.
Translation
Here lies Michel Bourri, a Swiss. Died in 1673.
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 325
VI
Cy git
Rodolfe
Translation
Here lies Rodolfe.
Of this last tomb, with its simple epitaph, more is
known than of the others, Jean Chardin says in his
Travels’: “ Parmi ees tombeaux il y en a un d'un
Horloger nominé Rodolphe, Allemand [sic], Protestant,
qu’on peut dire qui sonfrit le Martyre, sous le régne de
Sefi premicr (1629-1642); car quoiquion le fit mourir
paree qu'il avoit tué un homme en se défendaut, le Roi ne
ement
laissa pas de lui faire offrir avec tant d’empre
durant un si long-tems la vie, eb toute sorte de biens et
@honneurs, s'il vouloit se faire Mahometan, qu'on ne lui
peut refuser le glorieux titre de Martyr. Les Arméniens
vont tous les jours 4 son sepulere briler de l’encens et des
hougies, casser des pots et jetter le sort. Ils sont assez
superstiticux pour eroire que si quelqu’un attaqué de
fidvres casse le pot dans Jequel il a coutume de boire sur
la fosse d'un homme mis & mort injustement, il guerira
peu apres, eb ils ne doutent pas que cet Allemand [sic]
nait été traité ainsi, puisque celui qu'il avoit tué
Vattaquoit le sabre & la main, pour lui dter la vie. Ces
gens jettent le sort, en laissant tomber ciny petits cailloux
sur la fosse, et s’ils tombent rangez en croix, c’est un bon
augure. Ils croient que le merite du Martyr, ou de tout
autre saint personnage sur la fosse duyuel ils cherchent
a s’éclaircir de leurs doutes les y fait parvenir et les tirent
de la peine ot ils se trouvent.”
Armenians no longer assemble at Rodolfe’s tomb, and
divination by the method described by Chardin is no
longer practised, for the tombstone has subsided unevenly,
1 Ed. 1711, vol. viii, p. 285. But Chardin is mistaken in making
Rodolfe a German. He was a Swiss.
326 GRAVES OF BUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
and the surface is so far from level that pebbles dropped
on to it roll on to the ground.
Near these graves a Frenchman lies buried,
VIL '
Tlie iacet
D. Mareus Xav"
De Marez Gall
Obiit 31 Maii
1673.
Translation
Here lies Monsicur Mare Xavier de Marez, a Frenchman.
Died May 81, 1673.
Other old graves of Europeans in this part of the
cemetery are those of Dutchmen, mostly members of
the Dutch East India Company. The spelling of the
various Dutch epitaphs, untrammelled as it is by
uniformity, has been preserved.
VIII
Hier leyt begraven Huybert Buckens in syn Leven Asst.
wegens de N“ Oost-Indische Comp* en Diamant Slyper in
Dienst van de Coninck van Persien. Obyt den 25° December,
A° 1658.
Translation
Here lies buried Hubert Buckens, in his life Assistant in the
Dutch East India Company and diamond cutter in the service
of the King of Persia. Died December 25, 1658.
This is the earliest Dutch epitaph in the cemetery,
although the Dutch Company was established in Persia
in 1623.
Ix
Hier logt begraven
Willem Lok in syn Leven
Onderkoopman der Neder-
-lantsche Oostindische
Comp’. Sterlt den 12”
January, A° 1663,
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 32
Translation
Here lies buried William Lok, in his life a junior merchant
of the Dutch East India Company. Died Jannary 12, 1663.
x
Jlic iacet
D. Jacobus
Kemel Hol-
-land® Obi-
-it 8 Janu!
1670.
Translation
Vere lies Mijnheer James (or Jacob) Kemel, a Dutchman.
Died January 8, 1670.
XI
Hier leyt begraven Frederick
Bouduwyns in syn Leven Onder-
-coopm” wegens de N" Oost-Indise
Comp* Obyt den 17" January
A° 1673.
Translation
Here lies buried Frederick Bouduwyns, in his life a junior
merchant in the Dutch Hast India Company. Dicd January 17;
1678.
XI
Hier leyé begraven Georgh [sic] Wilmson
in syn Leven Coopman en Hooft wegens
D N“ Oost-Indise Comp’ desos Compt" Spahan
Obyt 6" Maart
A®° 1675.
Translation
Here lies buried George Wilmson, in his life merchant and
superintendent in the Dutch Fast India Company, in the
factory at Isfahan. Died March 6, 1675.
XU
Hier leyd begraven Fran-
-gois Castelijn de Jonge. Obyt 12”
Janua A° 1697 Oud 7 Maend.
328 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
Translation
Here lies buried Francois Castelijn the younger. Died
January 12, 1697 O.S.
This is evidently the son of the lady buried in the next
grave, for he is described as “the younger” and no official
designation follows his name, whereas the husband of
Sara Jacoba held a high position in the Dutch Company.
XIV
Hier leit begraeven Sara Jacoba Six
van Chandelier Vrouwe van Frangois Castelijn
Oppereoopman cn Opperhooft wegens de Nederl :
Oost Indise Comp. tot Spahan. Obijé 9°" Meij A°® 1703,
Translation
Here lies buried Sara Jacoba Six (?) van Chandolicr, wife of
Frangois Castclijn, senior merchant and senior superintendent
in the Dutch Bast India Company at Isfahan. Died May 9,
1703.
On either side of this epitaph is an armorial achieve-
ment, the charges on which are fairly distinct, though,
unfortunately, the tinctures cannot be determined, as the
usual means of distinguishing them has not been adopted.
The following is the achievement on the dexter side of
the epitaph, the tinctures being necessarily left blank:
two bars enhanced over all a triangle voided
apex in chief, and in base, within the triangle, an
estoile of eight points Crest, a torch inflamed
, between two wings elevated and addorsed
These are, perhaps, the arms of the Dutch East India
Company, with which I am not acquainted. On the
sinister side of the epitaph is the following achievement:
Party per pale, dexter, gules (?) three eagles displayed
argent (?); sinister, party per fess, in chief & cross
corded, and in base gules(?) three lozenges ermine (?).
Frangois de Castelijn was probably a scion of the house
of de Chastillon (Chatillon-sur-Mame), which had branches
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 829
in the Netherlands, The arms gules, three eagles dis-
played, argent are attributed by Papworth and Morant to
a family of the name of Caston, probably derived from
the same source. The arms gules, three lozenges in fess,
ermine belong to a family called, by the same authority,
Chastlion or Chastyon, an evident corruption of Chastillon.
In the coat cut on this tombstone the lozenges are not
arranged in fess but in the ordinary manner, two and one,
but this may be a mistake of the local stonemason, for
the stone was certainly cut in Isfahan, or either the coat
cut on the stone or that given by Papworth and Movant
may be a variant, borne by a cadet, of the original coat.
The history of this house has been written by André du
Chesne, the title of the book*being Histoire de la Muison
de Chustillon sur Marne, avee les Généulogies et Armes
des illustres Funvilles de France et des Pays bas, par
Andy, du Chesne. Paris, 1621.
Xv
Hier legt begraven
Den A. Heer Mattheus Luup-ur
in zyne Leven Ondereoopman
en Opperhoovd in der Nederlandsche
godr Agecnde Oost Ind. Comp
ten Comptoire Ispahan
Obiit den 12 Novemb. 1780.
Translation
Here lies buried Heer Mattheus Luup-uwr, in his life junior
merchant and senior superintendent in the Dutch
agency, East India Company, in the Isfahin factory. Died
November 12, 1730.
The epitaph is not clearly legible, not because it has
been defaced, but because it has been cut in an extremely
ornamental text hand, with many flourishes, probably by
a mason who did not understand what he was cutting
and worked from a copy which he did not faithfully
reproduce.
330 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS At I1SFAHAN
Four Russians are buried in this part of the cemetery,
two of whom were connected with an embassy, while the
third was apparently a merchant or a traveller, and the
fourth, an aide-de-camp toa Russian commander-in-chief,
probably visited Isfahan in an official capacity. ‘The
epitaphs, which are ent in Slavonic characters, were
extremely difficult to decipher owing to the manner in
which space has been economized by amalgamating letters
and by cutting some letters within others. The chief
peculiarity of the spelling is the substitution of » for , an
error which I have not thought it necessary to preserve
in the transcriptions. For the decipherment and trans-
lation of these epitaphs, and of the Polish epitaph which
follows them, I am indebted to the great courtesy of
Captain André Andreivich Balakin, of the Russian Any,
at present Staff Officer to the Brigade of Persian Cossacks
at Isfahan,
XVI
Aro 71
95To M
ana De
Bpad
Bb 10 Bor
ew Bom-
NClO T=
“Cr Ta B=
HCH pa-
-Ob Bon-
-iit Bopu-
-cb Ja-
= MHAOBD
Oyayru-
~¢ noctamumKomy Ronerantanows
Xpuerowopows resonbe ero
RAMCHS NOMMID MOCAAUNAKOBD
Exusap Pogiouows Hopujoxuny
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 331
Translation
On February 10, a... 7195 (4.0. 1686) there departed this
life, by the will of God, the servant of God, Boris Daniloff, who
was with the Ambassador, Constantine Christophoroff by naine.
This stone was placed here by the Ambassador's man, Elizar
Rodionoff Porshchokin.
The last four lines of the epitaph are cut round the
edge of the stone.
XVIT
Ebro 7195
YP ieama
0
Man op
5 upeera-
Buca pady
Bowiii Bea-
-uxneh Tory aa-
= pelt mpm
~ABy MON
ariii [nM-
-atpiii Ocoj-
-oponh Th-
~YeroRD
~cb Hocaan-
~IKOM
Konerantunom
Xpuctowopoppiw
Translation
On May 5, a.m. 7195 (a.p. 1686) there departed this life the
servant of God, the employé of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Great Lords, Demetrius (son of) Theodore Shustoff, who
was with the Ambassador Constantine Christophoroff.
XVOI
Abra 7204 roxy
uibeana Dep-
~padi Bb
332 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
6 xem» mp-
-cerapil-
Ch pach
Bow
-Htxail10
Irnarpe-
wp cou UL
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-0n
Translation
On February 6, at. 7204 (a.n. 1695) the servant of God,
Michael (son of) Ignatius, son of Telyanikoff, departed this life.
XIX
Cepocneroro
Tocuojuma Ten-
-epasa an Mee-
-rb nw Nopase-
-pa Bacnana
Akonsenna-
-a Tenamona
«plnrerb Agyio~
-ranrb Bo Epo-
een Ako.
* -e8h Chub,
Aesamons
norpedeirs
HACE T- -
-ocre 1782 P-
oly Perp-
-aia 4 qua
Translation
Erophei Yakovleff, son of Levashoff, Aide-de-camp to Vasilie
Yakovlevich Levashoff, Knight, General-in-Chief of the (forces
of the) Lord of all the Russias, is buried in this place, February 4,
A.D. 1782.
As General Levashoff and his Aide-de-camp had the
same surname and the same patronymic it is possible that
they were brothers,
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 333
The next tomb is that of the only Pole buried in the
cemetery and bears epitaphs in Russian and Polish.
XX
Abra 7195 lena-
Opa nomit 26 anesao-
-1v10 Boaieto upecrasnca
wb Cuoraun Hocaannunn Ropo-
-lepenaro Beanseersa
Hoacraro Oeosops
Mupanosna
Lezy tu cr-
-zesznik Th-
-eodor Mi-
-ranowicz Po-
-sigunik Krula
Te. M. Polskiego
Decembra 26,
1686.
Translation
(Russian) Theodore Miranovich, Ambassador of His Royal
Polish Majesty, departed this life, by God’s will, on the night of
December 26, a.m. 7195 (4.p. 1686), at Isfahan.
(Polish) Here lies a sinner, Theodore Miranowicz, Ambassador
of His Majesty the King of Poland, December 26, 1686.
In the next grave lies buried a Greek of Constantinople,
whose tombstone bears the following epitaph in uncial
letters.
XXI
ENOA
AEKH
TEOA
8A0E
T8OEO
YIOAN
AKHZO
HMHAN
334 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
8EKTH
=BASH
AEBOY
=HTON
NO'AEO
NKONS=
TANTI
noyn
OAIE
The spelling of the Greek is atrocious, and the grammar
is worse. I am unable to reconstruct the whole of the
epitaph, and the following attempt is as far as I can go:—
"EvOd8e rau 6 80ir0s to @cod "Toanashs Onunavod éx
tis BacikeBovon (5?) Tis wodéws Kovoravrivorrodas.
Perhaps tév arodéwv may be substituted for ris orgs.
Translation
Here lies the servant of God, Ioannakis son of Thimianos, of
the Royal . . . (2) of the city (or cities) of Constantinople.
In this part of the cemetery there are no other old
tombs bearing epitaphs in European languages. Other
tombs of Europeans here are all modern and of no
interest. There is, howéver, another large group of
tombs of Europeans and other foreigners, near the north-
eastern corner of the cemetery. ‘The carliest of these is
that of a French physician.
XXII
Hic iacet
Johannes
Malom Natio-
-ne Gallus Relli-
-gione Romanus
Professione Med-
-icus. Obiit aetatis
suae 40 Anno Do. [sic]
1646.
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 335
Translation
Here lies John Malom, a Frenchman by nation, a Roman by
religion, and a physician by profession, Died in the 40th
year of his age, A.D. 1646.
The next grave is that of a French youth.
XXIM
Ornate pro eo.
Hie iacet
‘arolus Du-
-voyer native
Gallus Religi-
-one Roman" ob-
-iit Ato Dii 1649
Act. 18.
Quo me fata trahunt? Tterum mors visere caros
Haud sinit, at plenos hie rapit ante dies.
Heu ceptis adversa meo quid funere tontas?
Num miserum his terris reddere forte cupis ?
Falleris; oh duleem capiunt hic membra quietem
Meque Deo ccelum mente reduce beat.
Mors inimica viae patriis me tollere rognis
Dum putat, optatis reddit amica locis.
Translation
Pray for him. Here lies Charles Duvoyer, a Frenchman by
nation, « Roman by religion. Died a.p. 1649, aged 18.
Hard fate! Cruel death, forbidding me again
To see my dear ones, cutting short my youth
In envy! What then wouldst thou with my corpse?
Canst thou commit me wholly to this earth?
Vain hope! For here my limbs find grateful ease
And through heaven’s gate my soul returns to God.
Death, the foe, bars my way to carthly home,
Death, the friend, leads me where I fain would be.
The next two graves are those of two men, probably
either brothers or father and son, bearing the strange
name of Pantaleo (Pantaleone), whose nationality is not
336 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
mentioned. In order not toseparate them I have inserted
the second epitaph out of its proper chronological order.
XXIV
Hie iacet hon-
-orabilis homo
Nicolaus Pant-
-aleo Catholic"
Obiit 25, aetatis
suae die 23 Maii
1659.
Translation
Here lies an honourable man, Nicolas Pantaleone, a Catholic.
Died May 23, 1659, in the 25th year of his age.
XXV
Hie ia-
-cet H.
Mare®
Panta-
-leo Ca-
-tholi-
-c° Obiit
ix Aug.
Anno M
DCLXII
Translation
Here lies an honourable (man), Marcus Pantaleone, a Catholic.
Died August 9, 1672.
Next comes a tomb with a very brief epitaph.
XXVI
Janne
de
Roye
1659.
The next grave in chronological order is that of a priest
of the Society of Jesus. The Portuguese Augustinians
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS at’ ISFAHAN 337
were the first Western order to arrive in Isfahan, Antonio
de Govea, of this order, having been sent as an ambassador
to Shah ‘Abbas the Great, in 1598, by Aleixas de Menesez,
Archbishop of Goa. They were followed by the Carmelites,
who came as ambassadors, in 1604, from Pope Clement VIIL
to the same Shih. They were followed by the Capuchins.
These three orders were lodyed in the city, but the Jesuits,
who caine later as missionaries, never succecded in obtaining
this privilege, and were established in Julfa.
XXVII
Hie iacet P.
Alexander
de Rhodes
Gall’ Sacer-
-dos Religios*
@ Societate
Jesu, Missiona-
-vi* Afilicus qui
post longos
pro Xio variis
in missionib" orié-
-tis exitlatos
labores per an-
-nos 40 prim® hic
@ sociis pie obi-
-it die 5 Nov. an-
-no Salutis 1660
actatis suae 68
Go oils Bi
Translation
Here lies Father Alexander de Rhodes, a Frenchman, a priest
and a religious of the Society of Jesus, an apostolical missionary
who, after labouring long for Christ, during a period of forty
years, in various missions in the East, was the first of his
companions to die here, and died piously on November 5, in the
year of salvation 1660, and of his age the 68th.
Next in time comes the grave of another Frenchman.
gras. 1919. 23
338 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFANAN
XXVII
Hic incet
Micacl Mesbrun Gall"
Catholicus
29 Novem. 1660.
Multimodis fortuna modis mea tempora rexit,
Natns eram dives, pelago moreator amisi ;
Plurima post opifex, addictus yuaerere victim,
Porsidis ingress forsan sors sorte earebat
Qua rursus mutarer opem mors atiulit, aura
Sic palcas ayitat, donee cossunte quiescant.
Translation
Tlere lies Michael Meshrun, a Frenchman and a Catholic.
November 29, 1660.
Fortune in fickle mood did guide my lot,
Dowered me with wealth, which the sea bore away.
Later, a craftsman, doomed to seok my bread,
I came to Persia's shore in evil hour;
For, as I strove my fortunes to restore,
Death ent me off. Thus are we mortals whirled
Like chaff before the wind, which falls at length,
Leaving us, as it dies, in peace, at rest.
‘The next tomb is that of a Capuchin. The Capuchins
were highly favoured at Isfahan when the Safavi dynasty
flourished. The Carmelites and the Augustinians were
accommodated in the city in houses helonging to the Shah,
and Shah Safi (1629-42) made a similar offer to the
Capuchins when they came to Persia early in his reign,
with letters of recommendation from the King of France
and his minister, Cardinal Richelieu, but Father Joseph,
the leader of the mission, preferred to build, at the expense
of the Order, a house which should be its own property,
and was permitted to do so. The establishment included
a church and rooms for the monks.
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 339
XXIX
Hie iacet R. Pater
Valentin® Dangers
Capucin. Missionis 83
Actatis 66 Obiit 5 Novemb. 1665.
Translation
Here lies the Reverend Father Valentine Dangers, for thirty-
three years a member of the Capuchin Mission : died November 6,
1665, in the 66th year of his age.
There are three graves of members of a French family
named Muzen, the first of which hears the following
epitaph :—
XXX
Cy git
M. Claude Muzen
Catholique
Frangois de nation
1668.
Translation
Here lies Monsiewr Claude Muzen, a Catholic, a Frenchiman
by nation. 1668.
XXXI
Cy git Marguerite Muzen
Qui fut fille ef femme d’estranger
Qui est sortie au plus bean de son Age,
Qui fut fille de Claude et femme de Granger,
Qui ent aprés sa vie cette tombe en partage.
Déc. le 15 May, 1680.
Translation
Here lies Marguerite Muzen, who was the daughter of a
foreigner and the wife of a foreigner, who departed from this
life in the prime of her life, who was the daughter of Claude
and tho wife of Granger, and who had, after her death, this
tomb in portionment. Died May 15, 1680.
From this epitaph it would appear that Marguerite
Muzen’s mother was an Armenian, a native of Persia, who
340 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
married a foreigner, the, Frenchman, Claude Muzen, and
whose daughter by him, Marguerite, married another
foreigner, named Granger.
The third tomb of this family is that of an infant,
probably the daughter of Claude Muzen.
XXKIT
%
Cy att
Innocence
Muzen
Translation
Here lies Innocence Muzen.
A French family named de l’Estoile seems to have been
domiciled in Isfahan in the latter half of the seventeenth
century and, from the dates of their epitaphs, to have
remained in Persia for many years.
XXXII
Hie iacet honorabilis homo Isae [sic] Boutet de I’Estoile
* cunctis benefic* hospitalitate Celeberrim® Catolic* natione Gall’.
Obiit aetatis suae 76 anno 1667 Jullii 28,
Translation
Here lies an honourable man, Isaac Boutet de 1’Estoile,
generous in his hospitality to all, a noted Catholic, a Frenchman
by nation. Died, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, July 28,
1667.
The following epitaph is probably that of the wife of
Isaac Boutet de l’Estoile.
XXXIV
Hic iacet
Mavia
de
VEstoile
obiit
1655
Translation
Here lies Maria de l'Estoile. Died 1655.
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 341
The next may be that of a second wife, or more
probably a daughter, of Isaac.
XXXV
Hie incet
Maria de
l'Esioile
Obiit 2 Xber
1668.
Translution
Here lies Maria de I'Estoile. Died Decomber 2, 1668.
The following six epitaphs are evidently those of the
children of Isaac Boutet de l’Estoile.
XXXVI
Mareus
de
VEstoile
[No date.
XXXVIL
Laurens
de
VEstoile
[No date.]
XXXVI
Alexidre
de l’Estoile
1666
XXXIX
Tie ia-
-cet Ca-
-terine
de l’Es-
-toille [sie]
Obiit 2 Xber, 1671.
842 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
Translation
Here lies Catherine de I'Estoile. Died December 2, 1671.
XL
Louis Guilherme
de Vhstoille [sic]
Décddé lo
16 Juin, 1701
Translation
Louis Guilhorme de I’ Iitoile. Died June 16, 1701.
XLI
Hie iacet D.
Andre
de V'litoi-
-le Fide Cat-
-hol. xxi Dec.
1745. Requi-
-esc’ in pace.
Translation :
Here lies Monsieur André do l’Etoile, in faith a Catholic.
December 21, 1745. May he rest in peace.
The next tomb is that of another Frenchman.
XLIT
Cy git
M. Jean Bernard
Catholique
Frangois de
nation. 1671.
Translation
Tiere lies Monsieur Jean Bernard, a Catholic, a Frenchman
by nation, 1671.
In the next two graves are buried a Portuguese and
his wife,
GRAVES OF KUROPEANS AT ISVYAHAN 343
XDUI
Ili iacet
D. Manuel Rode-
-iguez Lusitan"
Catholi*. Obit
14 Janu. 1678.
Translation
Ulere lies Dom Manuel Rodrigney, a Porbugnose and a Catholic.
Died January 14, 1673.
XLIV
woe
Hie
ineet
Ignatia Cath. uxor Manuelis
Rodvignez
Obi. 28 Jul. 1681.
Translation
Here lies Ignatia Catherine (or porhaps “a Catholic”), wife
of Manuel Rodriguez. Died July 28, 1681.
Another Jesuit, bearing the same name as the heroic
Belgian Cardinal, is buried in this neighbourhood.
XLV
Hic incet
RP. CL LC. Mercier, e Soc. Jes.
Ob. An. D, 1674
Aet, 31.
Translation
Here lies the Reverend Father, the Cleric, J. C. Mercier, of the
Nociety of Jesus. Died a.p. 1674, aged 31.
The next epitaph is extremely ill-eut by an ignorant
mason, and ill-spelé, aud much of it is illegible. Letters
which are indecipherable are marked with asterisks.
344 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
XLVI
Patris Da-
-nionis Po-
-mmare * *
-aris ¢ * or
ch heo ini co-
-rpus in hac p-
* * oa iacet.
Obiit anno 1661.
Translation
The body of Father Danio Pommare * * * lies in this * * *
Died in 1661.
The letters ini are perhaps the termination of Capucint,
jut, if so, the rest of the word is extraordinarily corrupt.
‘The next epitaph was not quite so illegible, but was not
easy to decipher. Its latinity is corrupt, but its meaning
is clear.
XLVII
Hic iacet
To. Bapt.
Casmon
Mis. Apos.
qui cum
vix Spah.
usque pe-
-rvenisset
cam D. D.
Piquet
Babil. Eps.
obiit an.
1682
D. Piquet
ob. Hama-
-dani 26
Aug. 1685.
Translation ‘
Here lies John Baptist Cason, an apostolic missionary,
who, when he had hardly reached Isfahan with Monseigneur
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 845
D. Piquet, Bishop of Babylon, died in 1682. Monseigneur
Piquet died at Hamadan, August 26, 1685.
The Latin Bishop of Babylon was a suffragan of the
Bishop in Isfahan. Chardin, in his description of Isfahan,
tells the following story of another Bishop of Babylon :
“Et puis on rencontre deux grandes galleries, vis-A-vis
desquelles est une maison que les Europeans appellent par
dévision l’Evéché, parce qu'elle a apartenu ces années
passées & un Evéque de Babylone, suffragant & l’Evéché
VIspahan, qui y a demenré quelque tems. C’étoit un
Carme Frangois, nommé Monseigneur Bernard, qui aprés
avoir demeuré quelque tems en cette ville sans trouver de
quoi occuper un Evéque, se retira et retourna en France,
laissant la maison en bon état, l’église, la bibliothéque, les
ornemens, et l’argenteric. Etant & Paris, il vendit tout
cela & un orfévre, qui le fit revendre par les Hollandois
Yan 1669. On yendit la maison cinq-mille frances,
Vargenterie deux-mille, le reste fut partie renvoié, partie
dissipé.”
The next tomb, in point of time, to that of Father
Casmon is that of a child.
XLVII
Hie iacet Maria Robin.
In coelum abiit 20 Oct, An. 1683
Act. 3.
Sie
Consummata brevi complevit tempo-
-ra multa.
Translation
Here lies Mary Robin, who went to heaven October 20, 1688,
aged three. Thus, in a short time she lived much.
Next comes the tomb of a Swiss clockmaker, bearing
a name sufficiently well known,
346 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS At’ ISFAHAN
XLIX
Hic iacet insig-
-nis Diis Jacob Ro-
-usseau Genevens-
-is horologior-
-um faber vixit
annos 74 Spahani
48. Obiit 29 Mar-
-tii, 1758.
Translation
Here lies the famous Monsicur Jacob (or Jacques) Rousseau,
of Geneva, a clockmaker. He lived for 74 years, 48 at Isfahiin.
Died March 29, 1753.
The art of making clocks and watches was, as Chardin
says, unknown to the Persians, but the Shah employed, in
his time, a few European clock- and watchmakers.
After the downfall of the Safavi dynasty the glory
of Isfahan faded. Christians and foreigners no longer
enjoyed the favour and protection of comparatively
enlightened sovereigns, and the city ceased to be a
desirable place of residence for them. M. Rousseau,
however, long outlived the dynasty at Isfahan, but the
next European epitaph, in point of time, bears a date
nearly a century later than his.
L
R
Ci git Xavier Hommair Hell
Frangais, mort 4 Hispaban
1848, Aotit 18.
Translation
Here lies Xavier Hommair Hell, a Frenchman. Died at
Isfahan, August 18, 1848,
The next epitaph of interest is that of an Armenian
who may, however, be regarded as a foreigner, for he
came from abroad as a missionary.
Mere lies the Reverend D, J.
made to flourish the Catholic mission, long abandoned. After
twenty-four years of apostolic labours he died in the odour of
sanctily September 27, 1852.
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AY ISFANAN
ul
(Armenian epitaph.)
Gi git
lie R. D. J. Derderian
qui renouvela
ct fit prospérer
la mission
catholique
abandonnée
depuis longteraps.
Aprés
24 ans
do travaux apostoliqnes
il mourut
en odeur de sainteté
le 27 Sept. 1852.
Translation
34
Terterian, who restored and
re are a few other graves of foreign Christians, not
LIL
Hie iacet
Christiana
Virgo
Sara nominge
natione
Georgiana
tide
Catholica
quae cum
per inultos
annos
pietate
Envopeans, but in obedience to the Western Church. One
is that of a Georgian lady.
348 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
toti populo
pracluxisset:
ad Eum
quem toto
corde
dilexerat
avolavit,
xxiii Jan.
An? Domini
Mbccrv.
Translation
Ilere lies a Christian virgin named Sara, a Georgian by
nation and a Catholic by religion, who, after she had for many
years borne the light of piety before the whole people, on
January 23, a.p. 1704, took flight to Him whom she had loved
with her whole heart.
There are several graves of Chaldwan Christians of the
Roman obedience.
LUI
Hic iacet
Dominicus
Babilonens-
-is religione
Romanus pr-
-ofessione me-
-reator. Obiit
Anno D. 1689.
Translation
Here lies Dominic, a Babylonian, by religion a Roman and
by profession a merchant. Died a.p. 1639.
LIV
Hie iacet
Ebrahim
Babilonen
1649
Translation
Here lies Ebrahim, a Babylonian, 1649,
GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN 349
LV
Hie iacet
matrona
Bahbilonensis
Christiana Ro.
nomine Lucia.
Obiit 18 Jan. 1659.
Translation
Here lies a Babylonian matron, a Roman Christian, named
Lucia. Died January 18, 1659.
There are three graves of a family named Ioverida,
perhaps of a husband and wife and their son, probably
Chaldaans.
LVI
Hie iacet
Abdallah
Toverida Re-
-ligione Ca-
-tholicus.
Obiit xvii Jan.
Anno 1664.
Translation
Here lies ‘Abdallah Ioverida, a Catholie by religion, died
January 17, 1664.
LVIL
Hic iacet An-
-na Toverida
religione Ca-
-tholica quae
obiit xxi Dec.
anno 1663.
Translation
Here lies Anna Toverida, by religion a Catholic, who died
December 21, 1663.
350 GRAVES OF RUROPEANS AT ISFAITAN
LVIIL
Hie
incet
Georgi*
Toveri-
-da Ca-
-thol*
obiit
1681.
Translation
Here lies George Tovorida, a Catholic, died 1681.
LIX
Hic inect
Perici.
Religid
Cathol"
Obiit
9 Maii
1666
Translation
Hore lies Perican, a Catholic by religion. Diced May 9, 1666.
The next epitaph is that of a Chaldmwan lady who was
evidently, by her name, married to a Spaniard or a
Portuguese.
Lx
fic iacet Signora Maria Gomez
natione Babiloniensis religione
Romana. Plenis annis 77 obiit
27 Augusti, 1664.
Translation
Here lies Signora Maria Gomez, a Babylonian by nation,
a Roman by religion. Died, at the full age of 77, Aug. 27, 1664.
The lady buried in the next tomb was probably a
Chaldzean married to an Armenian.
GRAVES OF KUROPEANS A't ISTAHAN 351
LXT
Hie iacet
D* Clara
Yaren D!
Niersi_ con-
-sors. Ob. 2°
Julii 1787
eta sue 40.
Translation :
Tlere lies Mine. Clara Varen, wife of M. Nersus. Died July 2,
1737, in the 40th year of her age.
The last tombs to be noticed are three of a family of
Christian Arabs, bearing the name of Sa‘id. Chardin
mentions the interpreter of the Dutch East India Company,
buried in the first of the three graves, as an Arab who
had lived long in Europe and had a great talent for
languages, though he did not understand English.
LXIT
Tlic iacet
Diis. David Sahid olim Regis Galliae per
6 an. postea Soc. Hollandicae per 84 an*
lingnarum interpres peritissim* ac religioine]
Catho* zelo clarissim®, Ob. 10 Dec. An. 1684 act. 72.
Translation
Here lies M. David Sa‘id, formerly for six years in the service
of the King of France and afterwards for thirty-four in that of
the Dutch Company as a most skilled interpreter of tongues ;
and distinguished by his zeal for the Catholic religion. Died
December 10, 1684, aged 72.
LXIT
(Armenian inscription.)
Hie
iacet Dom.
Helena Sa-
-hid ob-
1780, 16 Nov.
352 GRAVES OF EUROPEANS AT ISFAHAN
Translation
Flere lies the lady IIclena Sa‘id. Died November 16, 1730.
LXIV
Simon
Said
Catholic.
(No date.)
a
“Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia” by Denis Wright from
the journal /ran published by the British Institute of Persian Studies
Volume 36, (1998) pp. 165-173
Volume 37, (1999), pp. 173-174
Volume 39, (2001), pp. 293-298
BURIALS AND MEMORIALS OF THE BRITISH IN PERSIA
By Denis Wright
Former President of the British Institute of Persian Studies
Memorials and graves of the British in churches
and cemeteries in many parts of Persia are a
reminder of Britain’s historical links and manifold
interests there—commercial, political, strategic,
evangelical—over the past three and a half cen-
turies. During much of that time disease was rife and
medical care inadequate so that many died tragically
young, among them babies and infants whose sad
story is epitomised in the three Murdoch Smith
headstones in the churchyard of Tehran’s Armenian
church of SS. Thadeus and Bartholomew.
Until late in the nineteenth century, the British
and others of Christian faith who died in Persia were,
when possible, buried in one or other of the ceme-
teries of the ancient Armenian communities settled
in Qazvin, Isfahan, Bushire, Shiraz, Tehran and
Tabriz. By the 1880s, faced with a growing Christian
community in Tehran, the American Protestant
Mission there took the lead in searching for a sepa-
rate burial ground for these expatriates and in 1884,
in conjunction with the Armenian Evangelical
Church, bought from Mirza ‘Ali Khan, Amin al-
Dawla, 6,000 zars of land at Akbarabad, then a hamlet
about two miles south-west of Tehran. Subsequent
purchases in 1888 and 1904 of adjacent land provid-
ed Tehran’s Protestant community with some 13,000
sq. m. for their cemetery. Some years later small
Christian cemeteries under the care of the Church
Missionary Society (C.M.S.) of London were estab-
lished in Isfahan, Kerman, Shiraz and Yazd while
American missionaries established one at Hamadan.
Among the earliest recorded British deaths in
Persia are those of Sir Robert Sherley and Sir
Dodmore Cotton who, after visiting Shah ‘Abbas at
Ashraf on the Caspian, died within a few days of each
other in July 1627 in Qazvin. According to their
fellow traveller, Sir Thomas Herbert, Sir Robert was
buried “under the threshold of his door without
much noise or other ceremony”, while Sir Dodmore,
ambassador of Charles I, was buried in the Armenian
cemetery where Armenian priests and people “very
civilly assisted the Ceremony...his Coffin was
covered with a crimson Satten-quilt lined with
purple Taffata; upon his Coffin were laid his Bible,
Sword and Hat”.! No memorials survive.
Below, beginning with Isfahan, I give such infor-
mation as I have gleaned from a variety of sources
about burials and memorials of those British who
died in Persia. My information is far from complete
and some of the graves and memorials I mention
may no longer exist. For lack of information I say
nothing about the Roman Catholic cemetery in
Tehran where British were also buried, possibly also
in other Catholic cemeteries elsewhere.
ISFAHAN
Isfahan became the capital of Safavid Persia in
1598. In 1617 the East India Co. (E.I.C.) opened a
“factory” there. When in 1786 Tehran became the
Qajar capital, Isfahan was for much of the nine-
teenth century an important staging post for trav-
ellers from Britain and India on the road from
Bushire to Tehran and Tabriz. Some of them died
there, as did members of the Indo-European
Telegraph Department and C.M.S. families sta-
tioned in Isfahan.
The earliest known British graves in Persia are in
the Armenian cemetery of New Julfa, the Armenian
suburb established by Shah Abbas at the beginning
of the seventeenth century. During the nineteenth
century, a number of British were also buried within
the precincts of the Armenian All Saviours’
Cathedral. In the twentieth century, the C.M.S.
established a small Protestant cemetery on the
Tehran road outside the town.
The New Julfa cemetery (Pl. XVI)
The two earliest graves,
inscribed in Latin, are those of:
William Bell, d. 24.2.1624, aged 33. E.I.C. factor in
Isfahan. He came to Persia in 1616 with the sailing
vessel James carrying the E.I.C.’s first trial shipment
of goods, and was the first ashore at Jask where they
anchored. According to E.I.C. records, Bell died
“after a seven nights sore visitation with a burning
fever” and his funeral was attended by “Hollanders
and such Franks as were resident, but likewise with
Cogiah Nazer and other the principal of the
Armenians, with all their churchmen . . . and at least
5000 Julfalines and other Xpians”.
their headstones
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Dr. the Rev. Edward Paget, d. 21.1.1703, aged 50 on
his way home from India. Matriculated Trinity
College, Cambridge 1671-2; Fellow 1679; Fellow of
the Royal Society 1682; mathematics master, Christ’s
Hospital 1682-95; chaplain to Sir William Norris’
mission to the Great Moghul Aurangzeb
1699-1702.4
In his monograph, in Armenian, The Armenian
Cemetery of New Julfa, Mr. L. G. Minassian lists 149
European graves including those of Bell and Paget;
some 20 others could also be British: where there is a
surname some have been identified with the help of
Bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti:
Charles L. Arter, d. 1919, aged 62. Ziegler & Co.
Eric, Herbert and Kathleen Baggaley, d. 1888, 1888
and 1892, in infancy.
Rev. James L. Garland, 1872-1933. Church Mission
to the Jews.
E. P. H. Glover, 1842-98. Armenian origin.
Dr. Leslie Griffiths, 1899-1942. Australian doctor
of the C.M.S. Murdered in tribal territory while
travelling with his son and H.M. Vice-Consul
Isfahan.
Ian Griffiths, 1930-42. Son of the above, murdered
with his father.
Emily Kathleen Hope, d. 1931. Wife of British and
Foreign Bible Society representative?
Hilda Nightingale, 1897-1943. C.M.S. nurse.
All Saviours Cathedral®
Eveline Gordon Bruce, d. 1873, aged 16 months.
Daughter of C.M.S. missionaries.
Frederick Knox Harris, d. 29.4.1917, aged 28. H.M.
Vice-Consul.
John Stanley Hughes, d. 11.2.1871, aged 28. Indo-
European Telegraph Department.
Dr. Catharine Mary Ironside, d. 1921 of pneumonia,
aged 49. C.M.S. doctor. Buried in the Armenian
Cathedral “as a gesture of respect and affection of
the Armenian community” among whom she
worked (Pl. XVII).®
Dr. Andrew Jukes, d. 10.11.1821 of cholera, aged 43.
E.I.C. doctor at Bushire 1804. He was travelling to
Tehran from India on a political mission when he
died in Isfahan. J. B. Fraser, with whom he was travel-
ling, read the Anglican Service over his grave after
the Armenian Service. The funeral procession was
led by the Armenian archbishop and clergy “in their
rich robes of ceremony” followed by “all the
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respectable merchants of that nation and the ser-
vants of the mission”. The headstone is inscribed
“Political Agent in the Persian Gulph”.”
Stuart Cumming McDonald, d. 1868, aged 1 year.
George A. Malcolm, d. 15.7.1826, aged 21 at
Yezdikhast en route for Tehran with the Kinneir
Macdonald mission. Bombay Civil Service. Nephew
of Sir John Malcolm.8
John A. Orford, d. 9.1.1869, aged 19 months.
Claudius James Rich, d. 5.10.1821, aged 34, of
cholera in Shiraz en route for Bombay. Reinterred in
Isfahan in 1826 at the instance of “his affectionate
friend Colonel J. Macdonald Kinneir” after vandal-
ism in Shiraz. Rich was the E.I.C.’s Resident in
Baghdad.9
Charles Darnley Stuart, d. 14.7.1826, aged 21 at
Yezdizhast en route for Tehran with the Kinneir
Macdonald mission.!°
Major Arthur Stock, d. 5.8.1831, en route for Tabriz.
15th Madras Native Infantry.
Dr. John Taylor, d. 6.12.1821 at Shiraz. Bombay
Medical Establishment. Re-interred in Isfahan in
1826 following vandalism in Shiraz cemetery.!!
Frederick William Waddell, d. October 1871, aged 9
months.
Malcolm, Rich, Stuart and Taylor were given a
joint burial service on 17 July 1826: “there were in
attendance at the solemn ceremony one califa or
archbishop, twelve bishops, and forty priests, besides
boys bearing candles etc. for all of which, of course, a
very handsome present was given, and also a dona-
tion to the church”.!2
It is also recorded that Thomas Adkins, coachman
to Sir Gore Ouseley, died in Isfahan on 31 July 1811
en route for Tehran, but where buried is not
known.!3
C.M.S. Protestant Cemetery
Bahram William Dehqani-Tafti (British mother), d.
6.5.1980, murdered by Iranian revolutionaries in
Tehran, aged 24. Son of Bishop Dehqani-Tafti.
Rev. H. C. (David) Gurney, d. 27.2.74. Australian.
C.MLS. Missionary.
Mr. Harrison. C.M.S. Missionary.
Mary Isaac. C.M.S. Missionary.
Clifford Harris, d. 1926 of typhus. A young school
teacher at the Stuart Memorial College, Isfahan; his
grave since obliterated by road building.
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BANDAR ABBAS
From 1722-63 Bandar Abbas was the E.I.C.’s base
in the Persian Gulf. J. G. Lorimer, in his encyclo-
paedic Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf names eighteen
employees of the E.I.C. who died there between
1739-61 with the comment, “probably many others”,
1760 was a particularly bad year when, along with a
Mr. Nash, “most of the European soldiers died”.
Alexander Hamilton, writing in 1727, thought that
the unhealthy climate was not the only cause of
death as “the Europeans often hasten Death sooner
than he could come by his own accord by
Intemperance and Debauchery of several kinds; and
they have a Burial-place pretty near the Town, well
stored with Tombs, but never a Christian Church in
this Town”.!4
QISHM ISLAND
Qishm Island, close off-shore from Bandar Abbas,
was occupied without Persian consent by British and
Indian soldiers in 1820 to serve as an anti-piracy base
but was abandoned three years later because of the
bad climate and high mortality. When J. B. Fraser vis-
ited the island in 1821, “of the whole force there
were but 300 Sepoys and a few Europeans fit for
duty; and not one British officer able to attend
parade, except the Commandant himself... no-
thing can be imagined more desolate and unpromis-
ing than the island”. Nevertheless, until 1935 the
British retained at Basidu on the north-western tip of
the island a naval supply depot and coaling station.
In 1968 the remains of the abandoned British
cemetery at Basidu of about thirty graves and memo-
rial obelisk were visible.!5
BUSHIRE
Bushire was the E.I.C.’s Persian Gulf head-
quarters from 1778-1857 and, thereafter until 1946,
the seat of the British Resident for the Persian Gulf,
a proconsular figure appointed by the Government
of British India.
There are three cemeteries in and close to
Bushire where British were buried.
The Armenian Church of St. George
A British visitor in 1966 reported seeing a number
of British graves dating from 1856 in the church’s
graveyard and three wall tablets within the church
commemorating British officers who lost their lives
in the 1856-57 Anglo-Persian war; however, Sir
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Anthony Parsons, who visited the church ten years
later, listed only the following headstones and
memorials:!6
John Arnott. “Late Chief Engineer”
M. J. Bird of Sunderland, d. 14.10.1890 at Borazjan
“in the service of the Persian Mining Corporation”.
Matthew Coates of Belfast, d. 9.8.1871, aged 35, at
sea of apoplexy. Commander of S. S. Mula.
Newcombe J. C. Edwards, d. 10.11.1893, aged 42.
John Ferguson of Greenock, d. 29.2.1869, aged 36.
Chief Engineer, British India Steam Navigation Co.
Victoria Goolzad, d. 4.3.1916, aged 77.
Charles Arthur Grant, d. 24.9.1877, aged 7 months.
Son of Major Charles Grant “officiating Political
Resident”.
Joseph Gregory, d. 17.5.1894.
Varkom Gregory, d. 22.7.1894, aged 43.
Caroline Hayward, d. 19.10.1905, aged 64. “Widow
of Dr. William Hayward”.
A. M. J. Lucas, d. 12.6.1906, aged 58.
Ripsima Lucas, d. 13.8.1898, aged 44. Wife of the
above.
Lt. John MacLeod, d. 11.9.1823, aged 29. East India
Co.’s Resident.
Mesail S. Malcolm, d. 17.7.1877, aged 32.
Sarah Malcolm, d. 29.11.1902.
Elizabeth Malcolm, born Bushire, d. 27.2.1909, aged
75. “relict of Arratoon Malcolm”.!7
Seth Simon Nahapiet, d. 21.5.1878, aged 8 months.
Mary Frances Prideaux, d. 1.8.1877, aged 33. Wife of
Lt. Col. W. F. Prideaux, Political Resident.
George F. Simpson of Charmouth, Dorset,
d. 11.8.1898, aged 40, “on board SS Kilna at
Bushire”.
Lt. W. B. Warren and M. C. Utterson “of the XXth.
Regiment Bombay N.I.. Died of wounds received at
the storming of Fort of Bushire 9.12.1856”.
Reshire (Rayshahr) Cemetery
This British cemetery on the west side of the
Bushire peninsula was abandoned after the removal
in 1963 to Tehran of the remains of those killed in
World Wars I and II. A visitor in 1966 found some
thirty to forty graves, many unidentifiable, dating
from 1815. Another visitor in 1976 noted the
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remains of a mutilated large marble plaque listing
names and regiments of soldiers killed in World
War I.
Most of the fatal casualties (less than 50?) suffered
by Anglo-Indian forces during the six-months Anglo-
Persian war of 1856-7 were buried in this cemetery;
among them, those killed at the storming of Reshire
fort on 9 December 1856 (Brigadier Stopford, 64th
Regt.; Col. Malet, Bombay Cavalry; Lts. Warren and
Utterson, 20th Bombay Native Infantry); also Lt.
Frankland of the 2nd European Light Infantry and
eighteen others killed at the battle of Khosh-ab on
8 February 1857. General Stalker and Commodore
Ethersey, the army and naval commanders, who mys-
teriously committed suicide within days of each
other in March 1857, were also buried here.!®
SHIRAZ
Like Isfahan, Shiraz was an important staging post
on the way to Tehran from Bushire. In the 1860s it
became an Indo-European Telegraph Department
station.
On 13 June 1811 Lady Ouseley gave birth here to
the daughter who was to die a few months later in
Tehran, the first recorded birth and death of a
British child in Persia. Thomas Sheridan of the
E.L.C.’s Bombay Civil Establishment, a member of
Harford Jones’ 1808 mission and subsequently an
E.I.C. factor in Persia, died in Shiraz on 6 September
1812, being buried in the Armenian church of St.
Mary there. But a long-standing regulation prohibit-
ing the burial within the town of anyone dying with-
out, prevented the burial of Claudius Rich in the
same church. He died on 5 October 1821 and was
buried in the then well-known Bagh-e Jehan-Nama
(“Garden with a View of the World”) on the hillside
overlooking Shiraz where he had camped. Other
British and fellow-Christians were subsequently
buried in this garden, among them:
Sergeant Collins, Indo-European Telegraph inspec-
tor, murdered on the Shiraz-Kazerun road.
Captain Chambers.
Dr. John Taylor, d. 5.12.1822. Bombay Medical
Establishment.
Henry Valentine Walton, d. 1871. Indo-European
Telegraph.
Also, several children of Telegraph families.
Tablets in memory of Sergeant Collins and
Captain David Ruddell were placed in the Armenian
church. Ruddell, of the Bengal European Regiment,
was attached to Henry Ellis’s 1835 Persian mission
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and died, aged forty-nine, on 16 December 1835 of
fever in Shiraz en route for India.!9
TEHRAN
There are four cemeteries in which over the years
British have been buried, the earliest being the
Armenian church of SS. Thadeus and Bartholomew
south of the bazaar, close to the original British mis-
sion house in the district still known, I believe, as the
Bagh-e Elchi (“Ambassador’s Garden”). The others
are the Protestant cemeteries of Akbarabad and
©Azimabad, and the Commonwealth War Graves
Cemetery in the British Embassy compound at
Gulhak.
The Church of SS. Thadeus and Bartholomew
Headstones and tablets for the following were
noted by me in 1970 and are believed to be still in
situ:
Charles Alison, d. 29.4.1872 of pleuro-pneumonia.
H.M. Minister, Tehran 1860-72 (Pl. XXa). The Times
reported that
His funeral took place at 2 o’clock on Thursday afternoon,
the 2nd. inst. with most unusual honours. All the Persian
Ministers of State, except the Sadr’azam, all the generals
and principal officers of the army, the Governor of the
town, the Mayor and the heads of the Armenian and
Jewish communities, accompanied on foot from the
British Legation to the Armenian Church. All the foreign
representatives with their staffs, all the European officials
and residents, and a large concourse of people attended
the funeral. Everybody was in full uniform and the street
was lined by troops the whole way, on each side. The mili-
tary band, the Shah’s horses richly caparisoned, and also
those of the Sadr’azam, formed part of the cortége. On the
next day the Sadr’azam, accompanied by the Minister of
War, went to the British Legation to pay a visit of con-
dolence, and called also upon Mrs. Hill (Mr. Alison’s sis-
ter).
Anna Burgess, d. 8.1.1892, aged 77. Armenian-born
widow of Edward Burgess (buried in Tabriz).
John Burgess, d. 1855, aged 18 months. Son of the
above.2!
Harriet Baker, d. 5.6.1878, aged 49. Wife of Dr. J. E.
Baker, Medical Superintendent of the Indo-
European Telegraph Dept.??
Catherine Baker, d. 22.2.1884, aged 76. Widow of
Captain J. R. Baker R.N. and mother of the above Dr
J. E. Baker.?3
Major-General Sir Henry Lindesay Bethune, Bart.
“General Ameer-i-Toop Khana” (headstone inscrip-
BURIALS AND MEMORIALS OF THE BRITISH IN PERSIA
tion), d. 19.2.1851, aged 64 (Pl. XIXc). Accom-
panied John Malcolm on his 1810 mission; member
of British military mission, Tabriz. Retired to
Scotland but returned to Persia in 1850 for health
reasons.24
Dr. James D. Campbell, d. 23.3.1818, aged 31.
Assistant surgeon, E.I.C. Accompanied Malcolm’s
1810 mission.2>
Rev. Dr. William Glen, d. 12.1.1849, aged 71
(Pl. XIXa). Scottish Missionary Society and transla-
tor of the Persian Bible. Died in Tehran while visit-
ing his son, a member of H.M. Legation.?6
Eleanor Katherine (Nellie) Murdoch Smith,
d. 30.11.1883. Wife of Robert Murdoch Smith, direc-
tor in Tehran of the Indo-European Telegraph
Department. Daughter of the above Mrs. C. Baker.
Her headstone also records the death in 1881 of an
infant daughter, Jeanie, aged 6 months.2”
Hugh, Alan and Andrew Murdoch Smith, d. respec-
tively 21.11.1876, aged 4; 4.1.1877, aged 5 months;
31(sic).11.1869, aged 1 day (Pl. XXb). Children of
the above.?8
Hubert, Archie and Nellie Murdoch Smith, d. 19, 20,
21 March 1884 aged 7, 5 years and 4 months respec-
tively, at Kashan of diphtheria while en route for
Scotland (Pl. XXc).29
Charles Scott, d. 28.10.1841, of dysentery, aged 36
(Pl. XIXb). Second son of Sir Walter Scott. Member
of British Legation.*°
Rosina Regina Stevens, d. 5.5.1856, aged 20 months.
Daughter of R. W. Stevens, H.M. Consul, Tehran.
The memorial tablets of Alison, Campbell and
Scott are inside the church, the others in the church-
yard.
Two others known to have died in Tehran and
possibly buried in this cemetery are Artillery
Sergeant Spears, died November 1811°! and a Mr.
Hollingworth, manservant of Sir G. Ouseley, died
1 November 1812.2
A visitor in 1974 noted two memorials, presum-
ably of British subjects (Talmage Nelson,
d. 13.3.1877, aged 3 months, and Dr. David Khan,
d. 1905, of typhus, aged 57, Army doctor) in St
George’s Church (Armenian) in south Tehran.*?
Akbarabad Protestant Cemetery
As already mentioned, this cemetery was acquired
in 1880-4. It was managed by a committee of
Ministers/Ambassadors, usually under the chair-
manship of the British representative, sometimes
that of Germany or the USA.
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In 1930 an English visitor found “outside the walls
[of Tehran], the so-called Protestant cemetery . . . it
really is the burying place for any foreigner who may
die in Tehran, and is very well kept. It looks more
like a pretty garden inside high walls.54
According to British consular records, the ceme-
tery contained at its closure in 1970 508 graves of
which 117 (possibly another 20) were German, 102
(possibly another 22) were British, 49 American and
18 Swiss.>> Among the British were:
Eliza Shireen Ouseley, d. April 1812, aged 9 months.
Daughter of Sir G. and Lady Ouseley. First buried in
the garden of the British mission house south of the
bazaar, then in 1882 re-interred in the “old chapel”,
in 1890 moved to Akbarabad and in 1979, damaged,
to British Embassy, Tehran.>®
William T. Bamford, d. 8.8.1898 at Gulhak, aged 21.
One of more than twenty-five Telegraph staff and
families buried in this cemetery. Gertrude Bell, in
Tehran during the 1892 cholera epidemic, wrote of
many European deaths, among them “Telegraph
clerks who had been playing cricket the day
before.°7
Henry Cadogan, d. 22.8.1893 in the Lar Valley, aged
34. Diplomat, British Legation, Tehran. Engaged to
Gertrude Bell.*8
Lily Hepburn of Wakefield, Yorkshire, d. 23.9.1963,
aged 85. Mother of Olive Suratgar, wife of Lotfali
Suratgar, Professor of English, Tehran University.
Charles Cradock Hartopp, Bart, d. 14.3.1930, aged
36. Diplomat, British Legation, Tehran.
Dr. Thomas F. Odling, d. 17.2.1906 of typhoid, aged
55. Telegraph Dept. and British Legation doctor,
and daughter, d. 11.9.1898 aged 10 months.°?
‘Azimabad Protestant Cemetery (Pls. XXI-XXIIa)
By the 1960s, Akbarabad was no longer an isolated
village beyond the city walls but a suburb of Tehran
surrounded by houses, some of whose inhabitants
objected to Christian burials on their doorstep. In
consequence, the municipal authorities urged the
Protestant Cemetery Committee to seek a new site.
Desultory search and negotiation were brought to a
head in 1967 when the municipality at first refused to
allow the burial of a Swiss national in the cemetery.
Thanks to the goodwill of both the Prime Minister
(‘Abbas Hoveyda) and Mayor and his assistant
(Messrs. Nikpay and Pirouz) a satisfactory agreement
was eventually reached whereby in return for the sur-
render of the Akbarabad site and an undertaking to
leave existing graves there undisturbed for thirty
years, the Tehran Municipality provided the
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Protestant community with a new walled site of some
14,976 sq. m., equipped with water and electricity, at
‘Azimabad on the Qum road about ten miles from the
centre of Tehran. The cemetery was consecrated on
1 July 1970 by clergy representing the Episcopalian,
Presbyterian and Lutheran churches of Tehran. Two
stone plaques, one on either side of the gateway, one
in English the other in Persian read as follows:
TEHRAN PROTESTANT CEMETERY
THIS CEMETERY, PROVIDED AND
EQUIPPED BY THE MUNICIPALITY
OF TEHRAN TO REPLACE THE
OLD AKBARABAD PROTESTANT
CEMETERY, WAS CONSECRATED
ON THE FIRST OF JULY 1970
THE AMBASSADORS OF AUSTRALIA,
CANADA, DENMARK, FEDERAL
GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS,
NORWAY, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND,
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP
OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR
SIR DENIS WRIGHT NEGOTIATED
THE TRANSFER AND ESTABLISHED
THIS CEMETERY
The cemetery is today managed by the
Evangelische Gemeinde Deutscher Sprache in Iran
(German Protestant Church community) under the
supervision of a committee of ambassadors whose
chairmanship rotates annually.
To the end of 1997 16 British were among the 72
burials recorded at ‘Azimabad. The cemetery also
contains a number of headstones transferred from
Akbarabad.*°
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
CEMETERY
This British cemetery is situated in the south-west
corner of the British Embassy’s Gulhak compound.
Following the exhumation and transfer from ceme-
teries in different parts of Iran of the dead of two
World Wars,*! a dedication service was held on
10 November 1963 in the presence of the British,
American, Netherlands and Pakistan ambassadors,
and representatives of the Canadian, French and
Indian embassies.
The cemetery contains 573 identified graves, of
which 552 are those of Commonwealth forces (UK
467, Undivided India 76, Australia 3, New Zealand 2,
Canada, Southern Rhodesia and Burma one each);
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also USSR (11), Poland (10), France, Netherlands
and Norway one each.
A memorial in the cemetery commemorates by
name 3,595 soldiers of the Commonwealth armies
who died in operations in Iran during the 1914-18
war: 3,391 from undivided India, 202 from the UK
and 2 from New Zealand, among them over 600 vic-
tims in South Persia alone of the 1918 influenza
epidemic (Pl. XXIIb).*?
TABRIZ
Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan province, was in
the early nineteenth century the seat of ‘Abbas
Mirza, the Crown Prince and Governor-General of
the province. He commanded the Shah’s armed
forces, and in 1810 was given charge of foreign
affairs by Fath ‘Ali Shah. Tabriz thus became a
second capital where the British and Russian
envoys spent much of their time. It was also the
headquarters of successive British military missions
between 1810-39. There are two Armenian
churches in Tabriz where British burials and
memorials have been recorded:
St. Mary’s Church*®
Sergeant George Dickson, 26th Regiment.
Isabella Nisbet, d. 3.9.1834, aged one year. Daughter
of Alexander Nisbet, store keeper of the British
Military Mission and his English wife.*4
The Church of Sourp Shoughakat (the name of a
revered Armenian nun) *
Edward Burgess, d. 18.6.1855, aged 45. Merchant
and Nasir-ed-Din Shah’s principal _ translator.
Married an Armenian lady from Tabriz.*®
Isaac Greenfield, d. 25.12.1885, aged 65. Presumably
the father of Katty Greenfield whose abduction and
marriage to a Kurdish chieftain in 1891 caused a sen-
sation.4/
Dr. John Cormick, d. October 1833 at Nishapur on
his way to join the Crown Prince. E.I.C. Doctor.
Accompanied John Malcolm on his 1810 mission.
Married an Armenian and settled in Tabriz.4®
Dr. William Cormick, d. 30.12.1877 in Shepherd’s
Bush, London, aged 57. Son of the above, Married
an Armenian lady, sister of Edward Burgess’ wife.*?
Regina Stevens, d. 20.10.1856 of cholera, aged 24.
Armenian-born wife of R. W. Stevens, British Consul
in Tabriz 1847-54, Tehran 1854-60.
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Nine other Cormick graves are in this cemetery,
including the brother of William, d. 1856 of
cholera.°?
Sir John Kinneir Macdonald, H.M. Minister in
Persia 1826-30, died in Tabriz after a long illness on
11 June 1830. Major Isaac Hart, popular head of the
British military mission, died of cholera that same
night in Tabriz and was buried in the Armenian
cemetery there with full military honours but no
memorial survives.>! Macdonald by his own wish was
buried in the precincts of the Armenian cathedral of
Etchmiadzin (Uch Killisa) ten days’ march away in
Russian territory.
John Campbell (later Sir John) who took charge
on Macdonald’s death requested all British subjects
in Tabriz to wear mourning for two months while
CAbbas Mirza, the Crown Prince, ordered the bazaars
to remain closed for three days, public marriages
and festivities postponed and his Court to dress in
grey. On 16th June an impressive procession
escorted Macdonald’s coffin on the first four miles
of its long journey into Armenia. Servants, mounted
and on foot, led horses draped in black, muffled
drums, four pieces of artillery and a captain’s guard
preceded the coffin borne on a takht-e ravan or litter
between two mules, while four British sergeants and
two “public servants” acted as pall-bearers; behind
came the chief mourners, comprising Campbell and
his staff, the Russian ambassador and his staff, and
high-ranking Persians, followed by more artillery
and 450 men of the Crown Prince’s Bodyguard. A
salute of forty-nine guns was fired, marking
Macdonald’s age.
Captain Macdonald, a nephew of the deceased,
two British sergeants and two servants accompa-
nied the takht-e ravan on its difficult ten-day trek to
Etchmiadzin. One of the sergeants, name
unknown, has left a detailed description of this
journey.>? He tells of thunderstorms and drench-
ing rain, of being poled in a flat-bottom boat across
the fast-flowing Aras river marking the frontier
between Persian and Russian territory, of passing
snow-tipped Ararat “where Noah’s ark is still said to
be on the top”. At Nakhichevan, the party were cer-
emonially welcomed by the Russian governor with
a contingent of infantry and Cossacks and by
Armenian clergy, “chanting hymns and carrying
flags, crosses and other symbols of the church”.
Three days later, on the outskirts of Yerevan, the
British party donned full dress and placed
Macdonald’s decorations on his coffin before
being received by the Russian governor, Prince
Bebutoff, with a military guard and some sixty
Armenian clergy. Next day, 25 June, Russian sol-
diers, mounted and on foot, escorted them into
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Etchmiadzin. Bells tolled and a procession of 150
clergy and choir boys, all decked in their finest gar-
ments, conducted the takht-e ravan to the cathedral
where the coffin was placed on a table within
and covered with a gold-embroidered cloth. Next
morning after prayers in the cathedral “which
lasted about two hours” the coffin was taken to the
grave close to the west door, exclusive burial
ground of Armenian pontiffs. There in the
presence of Prince Bebutoff, the Armenian burial
service was followed by the Anglican service read
by Captain Macdonald. In due time, the Court of
Directors of the Honourable Company erected
over the grave a marble headstone “in testimony of
their estimation of important services ably and
successfully performed under circumstances of
unusual difficulty”.®5
Two English ladies, among the very first to reside
in Tabriz, died there, though no memorials survive.
The first was Mary Dudley of Soho, London, who
died of cholera in 1830. She had married in London
in 1819 ‘Ali Muhammed, gunsmith, one of the first
Persian students in England. The other, Mrs.
Bonham, was the wife of Edward Bonham, merchant
and first British consul in Tabriz. She died of typhus
on 30 December 1844. Daughter of Sir William
Floyd, Bart., and reputedly a niece of Sir Robert
Peel.
Edward Burgess, in a letter to his mother from
Tabriz, describes her funeral:
A grave was prepared inside the Armenian church. . . the
cold was intense and the streets in many places blocked up
with ice and snow. At near midnight on Monday the proces-
sion moved out of the house in the following order. First
went the Armenian priests in their gold and silver brocade
robes, with large wax tapers, lanterns etc. chanting the ser-
vice of their church. Then came a number of people with
torches on long poles and lanterns, then the body carried
by M. d’Ozeroff’s Cossacks in uniform, then M. d’Ozeroff
(Russian Consul-General) and I; next Mr. Bonham sup-
ported by the doctor and other Europeans, his friends;
then a long line of Christians of various denominations
such as Russians, Georgians, Greeks and Armenians who
notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather came unin-
vited to show their respect to Mrs. Bonham... when the
coffin was lowered into the grave I read the service accord-
ing to the rites of our church.°°
Five members of the British military mission sta-
tioned in Tabriz are known to have died while on
active service with Persian forces:
Captain Charles Christie. Killed at the battle of
Aslanduz against the Russians, 31 October 1812.5°
Sergeant William Hayward, died of wounds near
Nishapur, 4 December 1832, while campaigning
against the Turcomans.°”
172
Major Stone, Artillery Officer. Died at Ardebil
1812.58
Also two unnamed sergeants killed at the battle of
Sultanabad against the Russians, 13 February 1812.59
William Hollingsworth, manservant, died October
1812 of “an inveterate bilious disorder” while travel-
ling with his master, James Morier, to Tehran from
puervatan, Buried in the village of Ahmadabad in
Gilan.®
OTHER CEMETERIES WITH BRITISH GRAVES
Abadan
This cemetery is maintained by the National
Iranian Oil Co. and includes British re-interred in
1969 from a British cemetery in Ahwaz.
Kerman
Before being abandoned many years ago, this
small cemetery held eight British graves, among
them those of three C.M.S. missionaries. Mary Bird,
d. 15.8.1914 of typhoid, aged 58,5! Rev. Henry
Carless, d. 1898,°* and Dr. Dobson. Also the graves
of J. H. Davies, d. 1929 British consul Kerman and
Edward F. Malony, d. 20.2.1926.
Kharg Island
A British consular report of 1970 mentions an
abandoned British military cemetery of 36 unidenti-
fiable graves and “what appears to have been an
obelisk”, presumably the graves of Anglo-Indian
troops who occupied the island in 1839-42 and
1856-8.
Mashhad
The only known British grave is that of Mrs.
Temple, the wife of H.M. Consul General Lt. Col. H.
M. Temple, who died in 1899 and was buried in the
grounds of the Consulate-General.§*
Yazd
Kate Mothersole, d. September 1907 C.M.S.
missionary.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am very grateful to the many who have helped
me, directly or indirectly, in my quest for informa-
tion. Among them are Bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti,
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formerly Anglican bishop in Isfahan; Bishops Koriun
Khojababian of New Julfa and Artak Manookian of
Tehran within the diocese of the Armenians in Iran
and India; Dr. Levon Minassian, archivist of the New
Julfa Cathedral; Dr. Vrezh Nersessian, Curator of
Eastern Christian manuscripts in the British Library;
Harootune Catchikian, formerly of the British
Embassy, Tehran; Kevin Reed, of Hamilton, Victoria,
Australia; Dr. Edmund Herzig, of Manchester
University; Peter Bursey, Jeffrey James and Nicholas
Browne of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office;
Mrs. Guli Francis-Dehqani; Pastor Alexander von
Ottingen and Mrs. Margret Tamp, of Tehran; the
staffs of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Trinity
College, Cambridge, Library, the British Library’s
Oriental and India Office collections, the National
Army Museum, the Society of Genealogists, the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and final-
ly, Dr. John Curtis of the British Museum, who
encouraged me to undertake what I had suggested
he himself might do.
1 T. Herbert, Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia
the Great (London, 1677), pp. 212-14.
2 L. G. Minassian, The Armenian Cemetery of New Julfa (Isfahan,
1985); T. W. Haig, “Graves of Europeans in the Armenian
Cemetery of Isfahan”, JRAS (1919), pp. 321-52; J. Carswell,
New Julfa. The Armenian Churches and Other Buildings (Oxford,
1968), p. 13.
3 F.C. Danvers and W. M. Foster, Letters received by the East India
Co. (E.1.C.) from its Servants in the East, vol. V (1617), 100;
Calendar of State Papers. Colonial, East Indies (1622-4), p. 268;
F. J. Goldsmid, Telegraph and Travel (London, 1874), p. 562, for
Latin epitaph.
Goldsmid, op. cit; H. Das, The Norris Embassy to Aurangzeb
(Calcutta, 1959), pp. 36, 77; M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its
Fellows (Oxford, 1994).
5 H. Kurdian, “English Graves in Persia”, JRAS (1939), pp.
262-3; L. G. Minassian, in Haigazian Armenological Review,
Beirut, V (1974), pp. 188-9.
© R. E. Waterfield, Christians in Persia (London, 1973), p. 165.
J. B. Fraser, Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, etc. (London,
1825), pp. 124-6.
8 J. E. Alexander, Travels from India to England, etc. (London,
1827) pp. 145, 150.
9 Fraser, op. cit., p. 99; Alexander, op. cit., pp. 133, 150; C. J. Rich,
Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan (London, 1836), vol. Hl,
pp. 239-40; Carswell, op. cit., p. 30.
10 Alexander, op. cit., pp. 145, 150.
'l Jbid., pp. 133, 150; East India Company Register and Directory
(Calcutta, 1823).
!2 Alexander, op. cit., p. 151.
13 Sir Gore Ouseley, MSS. Diaries 1810-15, Bodleian Library,
p. 150.
14 Lorimer, Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, etc. (Calcutta, 1915), vol. I,
part 1, pp. 123-4; A. Hamilton, A New Account of the East Indies
(London, 1727), vol. I, p. 95.
'5 Fraser, op. cit., pp. 29-34; D. Wright, The English amongst the
Persians (London, 1977), pp. 65-6; British Consular Report 1970.
'© Papers in author’s possession.
17 The Malcolms (originally Malkomian) were an Armenian fam-
ily of Bushire long associated with the E.I.C. Others on Sir
Anthony Parsons’ list were probably, like the Malcolms, natu-
+
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ralised British subjects or Protected Persons. See Wright, The
Persians amongst the British (London, 1985), pp. 145-6.
G. H. Hunt, Outram and Havelock’s Persian Campaign (London,
1858), pp. 192, 220, 222, 243-5; B. English, John Company’s Last
War (London, 1971), pp. 88, 124; G. D. Barker, Letters from
Persia and India 1857-9 (London, 1915), pp. 17, 19, 24, 31;
Papers in author’s possession.
W. Ouseley, Travels in various countries of the East (London,
1819), vol. Il, p. 205; Rich, op. cit., vol. II, p. 239; C. J. Wills, Jn
the Land of the Lion and Sun (London, 1891) pp. 293, 295;
Goldsmid, op. cit., p. 643; Alexander, op. cit., p. 133; S.M.T.
Mostafavi, The Land of Pars, tr. N. Sharp (Chippenham, 1978),
p. 48.
The Times, 8.6.1872.
B. Schwartz (ed.), Letters from Persia written by Charles and
Edward Burgess (New York, 1942) pp. 123-4.
W. K. Dickson, The Life of Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith
(London, 1901), p. 251.
Ibid., p. 288.
Public Record Office (PRO): FO60/158; R. B. M. Binning,
A Journal of Two Years’ Travel in Persia, etc. (London, 1857),
vol. II, p. 217.
“The Russian Frontier”, JRCAS XVIII (April 1961); Wright, The
English Amongst the Persians, pp. 54-5.
J. Bassett, The Land of the Imams (London, 1887), p. 114;
Waterfield, op. cit., pp. 99-100.
Dickson, op. cit., pp. 254, 294.
Ibid., p. 288.
Ibid., pp. 294-5.
Wright, op. cit., p. 91.
W. Ouseley, op. cit., vol. III, p. 125.
G Ouseley, op. cit., p. 150.
Article by Jane Crane, in Tehran Journal, 10.6.1974.
C. E. Alexander. A Modern Wayfarer in Persia (London, 1931),
p- 63.
The Society of Genealogists has a copy of the British Consular
list of burials. Asia Monumental Inscriptions, vol. 1, ASi/M12.
G. Ouseley, op. cit, p. 109; British Library, Aberdeen
MSS./43209; C. Stuart, Journal of a Residence in Northern Persia
(London, 1854), p. 171; Alexander, op. cit., p. 63.
The Earlier Letters of Gertrude Bell (London, 1937), p. 336.
Ibid., pp. 267, 341.
British Medical Journal (7 April 1906), pp. 837-8.
Information provided by Pastor Dr. A. von Ottingen, Tehran.
Transferred from cemeteries in Tehran, Masjid-e-Sulaiman,
Hamadan, Qazvin, Naibund, Reshire, Rasht, Shiraz.
173
Information from the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission.
Tehran consular report 1970; P. M. Sykes, A History of Persia
(London, 1921), vol. I, p. 515;.
Kurdian, op. cit., pp. 262-3.
Wright, op. cit., p. 115n.
E. B. Eastwick, Journal of a Diplomate’s Three Years’ Residence in
Persia (London, 1864), vol. I, p. 193.
Schwartz, op. cit., pp. 123-5.
J.B. Feuvrier, Trois ans é la cour de Perse (Paris, 1896), pp. 245,
261; seen by the author in 1968.
PRO, FO/60/134; G. Fowler, Three Years in Persia (London,
1841), vol. I, p. 330.
Medical Times and Gazette (5 January 1878); Plarr, Lives of the
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons (London, 1930).
Seen by the author in July 1968.
British Library, India Office Records (10), L/PS/9/91
Campbell’s despatch of 21.6.1830; Fowler, op. cit., vol. I,
. 327.
MSS. with Mrs. N. Moss, Melbourne, Australia.
10,L/PS/9/91; Memoir of Sir John McNeill (London, 1910),
p. 131; H. F. B. Lynch, Armenia (London, 1901), vol. I, p. 266.
The headstone, seen by the author in 1986 is now set in a
nearby wall.
PRO; FO/60/15 for her marriage certificate; Fowler, op. cit.,
vol. II, pp. 61-2; R. Mignan, A Winter's Journey through Russia,
etc. (London, 1839), vol. I, p. 141.
M. Wagner, Travels in Persia, etc. (London, 1856), vol. III,
pp. 93, 109; J. Wolff, Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara (London,
1845), vol. I, p. 234; Schwartz, op. cit., pp. 71-3.
H. Pottinger, Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde (London, 1816),
p- 245; G. Drouville, Voyage in Perse fait en 1812 et 1815 (Paris,
1825), p. 29n.
PRO, FO/248/67.
H. D. Willcock, Notes on the Willcock Family (London, 1902),
. 76.
, Morier, A Second Journey through Persia, etc. (London, 1818),
p. 186; PRO, FO/60/6.
Morier, op. cit., p. 257.
C.C. Rice, Mary Bird in Persia (London, 1916), pp. 4, 183.
Sykes, Ten Thousand Miles in Persia (London, 1902), p. 192;
information from Bishop H. Dehqani-Tafti.
From photographs taken in April 1997.
British Consular report 1970.
Information from Mrs. G. Francis-Dehqani.
BURIALS AND MEMORIALS OF THE BRITISH IN PERSIA:
FURTHER NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
By Sir Denis Wright
Former President of the British Institute of Persian Studies
The following corrections and additions need to
be made to my earlier article in Iran XXXVI (1998),
pp. 165-73.The photographs were taken in 1998 and
1999 by Henry McKenzie Johnston (Tabriz), Shirin
Ala (Shiraz) and John Mitchener, H.M.Ambassador
to Armenia (Etchmiadzin). I am very grateful for
their trouble and help.
ISFAHAN
The New Julfa Cemetery (Armenian)!
Clifford Harris was buried here and not in the
Anglican (Protestant) cemetery.
E. P. H. Glover was British-born and a sergeant in
the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
Mr. Harrison was a visitor from South Africa and not
a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary.
The Anglican (Protestant) Cemetery ?
Adrian R. M. Holden, b. Bath 1930, d.1974 in a road
accident.
St. Luke’s Church (Anglican) contains the following
memorials®:
Bishop E. C. Stuart (Pl. XXXVIIa), d. 1911 in the
U.K., C.M.S. missionary in Isfahan 1893-1909.
Bishop W. J. Thompson (Pl. XXXVIIb), b. 1880,
d. 1975 in the U.K. C.MS. missionary; Principal of
Stuart Memorial College, Isfahan; Bishop in Iran
1935-61.
Nevill Carr (Pl. XXXVIIc), died of influenza while
serving with the South Persia Rifles in World War I.
Buried in Sirjan. Son of Dr. D. Carr, C.M.S. mis-
sionary.
St. Luke’s Church, like St. Simon’s in Shiraz and the
Anglican cemetery in Isfahan and elsewhere, was
established by the local church and not by the C.M.S.
BUSHIRE
Reyshire (Rayshire) Cemetery
This almost certainly dates from 1763, when Karim
Khan Zand granted to the East India Company a
farman allowing them to establish a factory in
Bushire and to trade in the Persian Gulf, and con-
taining the concession that “wherever the English
are they shall have a spot of ground allotted them for
a burying ground”4.
SHIRAZ
St. Mary’s Church (Armenian)
Mrs. Shirin Ala on her recent visit to the church
recorded the following memorials, all in good
condition:
Sergeant Robert Collins (P1.XXXIa) murdered near
Shiraz 23.7.1872°.
Captain David Ruddell (Pl. XXXIb), d. Shiraz
16.12.1835 of fever. The memorial is both in English
and Persian®,
Thomas H. Sheridan’ (Pl. XXXIc).
Henry V. Walton (Pl. XXXIla), d. 23.5.18718.
Clara Amelia Malcolm (Pls.XXXIIb and XXXIIIa),
b. 7.5. 1862, d. 8.10. 1893. Wife of Abed S. Malcolm
and “daughter of the late Conrad G. F. Fagergreen
(sic) Surgeon-General to H.I.M. the Shah”.
173
174
Abed S. Malcolm (PI.XXXIIIb), b. Bushire 24.2.
1851, d. Shiraz 17.9. 1893. Husband of the above.
Araton Malcolm, b. Bushire 20.11.1825, d. Shiraz
7.1.1892.
Joseph A. Malcolm, b. Bushire 2.6.1862, d. Shiraz 16.
9. 1888. Inscribed in both English and Armenian.
Louize Fagergren (sic), d. 30.3.1882. “Erected by her
sorrowing daughter”.
As mentioned in my earlier article, the Malcolms
(originally Malkomian) were a well-known Armenian
family long associated with the East India Company
in Bushire, some of whom became naturalised
British subjects or British Protected Persons.
St. Simon the Zealot’s Church (Anglican)
Contains a plaque in memory of the Rev. Norman
Sharp, b. 23.6. 1896, d. 11. 9. 1995 in Wiltshire
(Pl. XXXVIIIa). C.M.S. missionary; built the Shiraz
church’.
KERMAN
Dr George E. Dodson (not Dobson), d. 1937 of
typhus. Established a C.M.S. hospital in Kerman!?,
TABRIZ
St. Mary’s Church (Armenian)
Isabella Nisbet !! (P1.XXXIVa).
Church of Sourp Shoughakat (Armenian)
Dr. William Cormick died at Tabriz on 30.12. 1877
(and not in Shepherd’s Bush, as recorded in the
Medical Times and Gazette of 5.1.1878, and as stated in
my previous article!2), Other Cormick headstones
noted in 1998 were those of James E. Cormick
(PI.XXXIVb), d. 30.10.1871, aged six, son of Dr
William Cormick; Victoria Cormick, d. 1863 aged
eleven; and Richard C. Cormick, son of John
Cormick. Inscribed in both English and Armenian.
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Edward Burgess, Isaac Greenfield and Regina
Stevens!> (Pls.XXXIVc,d and XXXVa).
St. Sarkis’ Church (Armenian)
Eowe Stevens (PI.XXXVb), b. 1887, d. 1891.
Presumably the child of Hildebrand Stevens, a
prominent Tabriz businessman and honorary British
vice-consul there for many years!4.
MASHHAD
Mrs Florence Temple (P1.XXXVIIIb), d. 23.9.1899.
Photo by Sir David Dain in 1999}.
ETCHMIADZIN
(Seat of the Armenian Catholics and now in the
Armenian Republic)
Sir John Kinneir Macdonald (PI.XXXVI), b. 1782,
d. 11.6. 1830 at Tabriz!®.
See “Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia”, [ran
XXXVI (1998), pp. 165-66.
Ibid., p. 166.
Information from Bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti.
C. U. Aitchison, A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and
Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries (Calcutta,
1909), vol. XII, p. 34.
5 Tran XXXVI (1998), p. 168.
8 Ibid.
7 Tbid.
8
9
aw
Ibid.
See on the Rev. Norman Sharp the obituary by R. W. Ferrier
10 Tran XXXVI (1998), p. 172.
M1 Jbid., p. 170
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
This hitherto unrecorded memorial was photographed by
Henry McKenzie Johnston in May 1998.
15 Tran XXXVI (1998), p. 172.
16 Jbid., p. 171. The full inscription reads:
Here are deposited the remains of Lt. Col. Sir John
Macdonald Kt. R.L.S. who died at Tabreez on the tenth of
June MDCCCXXX 1830 in the fiftieth year of his age when
Envoy Extraordinary from the Supreme Government of
British India to the King of Persia. In testimony of their esti-
mation of important services ably and successfully performed
under circumstances of unusual difficulty the Court of
Directors of the East India Company have erected this monu-
ment to his memory.
BURIALS AND MEMORIALS IN PERSIA:
FURTHER NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
By Sir Denis Wright
Former President of the British Institute of Persian Studies
The material given below contains additions to my
previous articles on burials and memorials of the British
in Persia in Iran XXXVI (1998), pp. 165-73 and
XXXVII (1999), pp. 173-74. I am deeply grateful to
H.M. Ambassador Nick Browne and his wife Diana for
the Isfahan photographs, taken in March 1999; and to
Miss Joan Masters for those of Bushire, taken in
February 2000, except for the photograph of the grave
of Commandant A.Th. Sterzel, for which I am grateful
to Lady (Susan) Elliott.
ISFAHAN
The New Julfa Cemetery (Armenian)
The graves of William Bell, d. 1624, and Edward
Paget, d. 1703,! are the oldest known British graves in
Persia. Their Latin inscriptions, recorded in full by Sir
Frederick G. Goldsmid in his Travels and Telegraph
(London, 1874), p. 562, remain legible. (Figs. 1—5.).
HEXASTICHION
Fig. 2. New Julfa Cemetery, Isfahan. William
Bell’s grave, headstone.
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VIVES: MISED' yt cree A
COLDIGET Anicisy 1, STS Et
LONGINOVIEVITH M1 WNT, VTARAT
Hi MAIVVPNEMatic
; SLD C FAS VVMIVE
Ly?)
at
Fig. 3. New Julfa Cemetery,
Isfahan. William Bell's
gravestone. The hexastich (see
Fig. 1) is set at right angles to
the main inscription.
Fig. 4. New Julfa Cemetery,
Isfahan. Edward Paget's
gravestone, left-hand side.
,
ait set re met re en Gia ere TR:
OMI?
Fig. 5. New Julfa Cemetery,
Isfahan. Edward Paget's
gravestone, right-hand side.
BURIALS AND MEMORIALS IN PERSIA: FURTHER NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS 295
Fig. 7. St. George's Church (Armenian), Bushire.
Fig. 6. St. George's Church (Armenian), Bushire. St. WJ. Bird
George's Church after war damage.
Fig. 8. St. George's Church
(Armenian), Bushire. Caroline
Hayward.
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Ne
ah
MARCH AD AL If
Fig. 9. St. George's Church (Armenian), Bushire.
Haick Goolzad.
Fig. 10. St. George's Church (Armenian), Bushire.
Tigran J. Malcolm.
BUSHIRE
St. George's Church (Armenian)
Both the church and adjoining cemetery were badly
damaged during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, and
many of the memorials recorded in my 1998 article?
have now gone; the five listed below are all that appear
to have survived. Those of Haick Goolzad and Tigran
Malcolm were not recorded in my earlier article, nor
was that of the German A.Th. Sterzel.
W.J. Bird, d. 14.10.1890.3
Mrs Caroline Hayward, d. 19.10.1905.4
Haick Goolzad, b. 25.4.1875, d. 6.3.1941.
Tigran J. Malcolm, b. 1.3.1843, d. 4.5.1920.
Commandant A.Th. Sterzel, b. 25.6.1861 at Bautzen,
Saxony, d. 16.9.1896 (Figs. 6-11).
Fig. 11. St. Georges Church (Armenian), Bushire.
Commandant A.Th. Sterzel.
BURIALS AND MEMORIALS IN PERSIA: FURTHER NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS 297
The Goolzad and Malcolm headstones, inscribed in
both English and Armenian, indicate that the deceased
were members of the Bushire Armenian community
and probably enjoyed British Protected Person status.
Commandant Sterzel was captain of the 600-ton
Persepolis, the Persian Navy’s very first steamship,
built at Bremerhaven in 1884; when Curzon inspected
her at Lingeh in 1889 she’ had a crew of forty Persian
and Arabs and four German officers.5
RAYSHAHR (RESHIRE)
The old British Cemetery®
This was abandoned in 1963 and remains in a sorry
condition (Fig. 12). The ruined headstone of Emest H.
Tayson’s grave was photographed by Paul Gotch in 1963:
Emest H. Tayson, d. Bushire 3.4.1906 aged 26.
Leading Seaman on H.M.S. Hermes (Fig. 13).
Fig. 12. View of the abandoned
cemetery.
Fig. 13. Ernest H. Tayson.
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Notes 4 Tbid.
5 The Hon. G.N. Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question
1 See Iran XXXVI (1998), pp. 165-66. (London, 1892), vol. II, pp. 394-96.
2 Ibid., p. 167. 6 See Iran XXXVI (1998), pp. 167-68, and XXXVII
3 Ibid. (1999), p. 173.
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-xfithe it to bear Arms,
44 MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA.
Marriages.
163t Jan, 28 Mark Ballos & Judah Ray.
1674 Feb. 26 Simon Raye and Matthew (sic, ? Martha] Last.
1714 Oct. 6 Joseph Ray and Ann Frost.
1748 Oct. 6 John Argent and Mary Ray, both of this parish.
1751 Deo. 25 John Ling and Elizabeth Wray.
Burials.
1624 Jan. 28 Margaret Ray d. of Simon.
1626 July 12 Simon Ray.
1633 Feb. 16 Rebeckn Ray wife of John,
1684 [? April 21] Sara Ray d. of John,
1635 June 3” Jobn Ray.
1686 April 29. Martha Ray d. of John,
1637 May 21 Dennis Ray d. of Ann Ray, widow.
Oct, Ҥ Richard Ray s. of Ann Ray, widow.
1642 Sep. 6 Philemon Ray s. of Philemon.
1647 May 16 John Raye s. of Philemon,
1656 Nov. 25 Sarah Raye, widow,
1678 Sep. 10 Simon Raye s. of Simon.
1715 June 21 Samuel Ray.
1730 Ang. 27 Daniel Ray.
1739 Noy. 24 Mary Ray, widow.
(Tobe continued.)
Monumental Xnseriptions in Perusalem.*
Buyons THE Great Gare oF TH8 CHURCH oF THE HoLY SePULoHRE.
+HIC : IACET : PHILIPPYS : DE
AYVBINGNI : CVIVS : ANIMA RE
QVIESOAT : IN PACE ; AMEN :+
The following interesting letter and notes thereto in reference to above tombstone
appeared in “Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries” of March 180
“This stone wan discovered in ita present position some twenty-five years ago, being tl then
covered by wie eat of buldige which eet cer apenas of thi he pina
fatrance fo the Ohureh, and thea removed, “The fev. J.B, Hanauen, curate of Christ Church
fore hae inthe ° Quartény Statoment” of the Palestine Bxploration Fund for Apri, 1887, clearly
shown that this is the tombstone of Philip D'Aubigay, one of the Barons of England who signed
Magna Charta in 1215, and afterwards joined inthe Siath Grumme un Reype and Palestine,
Hewes at Acro in 1232, and wan with the Emperor Freleric in 1228 when Jerusalem wat
fecovre., D-Ashigny renaioel withthe Grose unt hs death whieh wax sory por to
thelr expulsion from Jerusalem in 1236 by the Sultan of Bgypt. Matthew Paria referring to
tveuts bappentog just befor tis expulsion, writes (482): About this time the noble devotee
to Gov’ service, the undinching warn, Philp de Ailineto, after that be had done beite for
Gad ia te Holy Land, and oft made pilgrimage thre, at last in the same la, close hs days,
dy making a laudable eod to hin gouty life merited, what living he had long fervently deat,
Holy burial inthe Holy Land
* Jerusalem, 14 Jannary 18 “R, CuisHorae Barren.
“There can be no doubt that the noble warrior, here commemorated, is the man alluded to
by Mr, W, Daubeny [see p. 7 of same Number] as being the first of the name selsed of the
‘lanor of South Petherton, and who fs also mentioned by Collinson (vol. fi, p. 108).
* Communicated by A. F. G. LuvEsox Gowsn, Req, The Hague.
MISCELLANEA GENHALOGICA BT HERALDICA. 45
©The letter of Me, Hanae, to which Mr, Hatten calls attontion, gives important information
‘concerning the. Crasader in question, colleted mainly’ from the’ pages of Matthew Paris—
Snformation whic in oo remarkble tobe omitted iu ay notice of Mi career ; andthe reader
‘wll ue pleased to remember that in what fllows, the pagosreferences upply to W, Wat'seition
GF Matchow Paris, publised by Hodgkinson, Landon, fa 1640.
’, 1218 Bbilippas de Albeneio (whichis but one of tbe many old spellings of the name)
Barons to sign, Magna Charts at. Rannymede (p. 238). After this
sis In hia Mistory, Job, who is sald to have exclaimed iam burs of rage, *They have given
e fourand-twenty over Kings Lost no ime in wreaking hie vengeanee on those nobles who bad
txtorted is compliance with thelr demands, "With this end, having hired a body of foreign
‘meroenaries, he commennoat by besieging the Castle of Hocheser, then held by Wiliam "de
‘ibe’ Having moa radaeing tha fortron ater a cg won og
gusting the me eri to he sword tN ht fo gd was med
ine enly ot the highest rank, umongt whom were Wiliam and Odinorllan de. Aline
During his dewlating march Philipps de Albencto with other was compelled to accompaoy
‘him (p. 274). Belvove Castle next fell nto the tyrant m being Nicholan the
.
“After the death of John in 1216, Philippus de Albineio was present at the coronation of his
son, Henry IIL. (then a child of eight years old), whose training was entrusted to his (Philip's)
tare durin the regency of the Bar of Pembroke.” He was likewise present atthe relief of Lincoln,
‘aud at the decisive battle called the ‘Fair of Lincoln’) in May 1217 (pp. 289, 205, 298). ‘The
Barl of Pembroke died in 1219. In 1222 (p.205) Philip resigned his post of Hoyal Tutor, and
the king was in the year following declared to bo of an age to govern for himself (p. 818). Our
hhero then took bis sword and lanes, and his trasty Norman shield with its esowtcheon of four
Fuails, aod joined one of the expeditions accessory to the fifth Cruse.
‘in a letter to his friend and brother-in-arms, Ralph, Karl of Obester and Lincoln (p. 318),
he states how, on neaving Daraletta, the Oraders' fleet met many vessels leaving that port £0
consequence of the disastrous issue of the campaign led by the Pope's legate. On this he
Feturned to Aere, where, according to some historians, he eventaally died." During bis residence
ff fourteen years (viz. from 1222 to 1236) in Palestine be seems to have taken an active part in
tho stiring events of that period, snd he lived to see the ion of Bethlehem nd Navareth
by the Christians, with free access to Jerasnlem and the Holy sits ; thas dying just in time for
‘he consutnmation of his pious desire to be buried on the sacred spot where all that is left of him
now lies, as related by Mr. Chisholm Batten,—Somenser EDIToE.”
In tHe Precixcrs ov tHe Cuvncn oF St. ANNE.
‘Gear the supposed sito of the Pool of Bethesda.)
HIC REQVIESCIT : 1OH’S
DE UALENCINIS. [See Plato,
Is tHe Ormereny sean Mouyr Ziox.
Sacred | to the Memory of | Cxon. A. Hina.van Bissuorr | ‘The Enfant [sic] son
of Sir Cxcrt, & Lady Brssitore | who died at Jerusalem on the 5! of May 1844 |
Aged 6 months.
Sacred to the Memory | of | Prepznick Winuiam Gooar | Born Aug. 18%,
1852 | died June 12, 1853,
Sacred to the Memory | of | Converts Zetaan | Born Feb. 1865 | Died Nov. 11,
1866.
Sacred | to the Memory | of | Danna | Wruvrract | Born March 1868 | Died
Sune 11, 1868,
Sacred | to the Memory | of Hanwa | Wervrnavt | Born April 1864 | died
Oktb. 29, 1864,
‘Janus SrePmEN | Conat | died May 4, 1879 | Age 9 months,
46 MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA BT HERALDICA.
Cumisvormen Saver, | Conan | Born Oct. 31, 1878 | Died Apr. 14, 1882.
‘Many Cuts | tov Conat, | Died Ang. 3, 1868 | Age 16 months.
A small white marble tablet let into wal
tothe | Jews | Died Jan, 26, 1826.
Guonox Dattox, M.D. | Missionary |
‘Many Arxrygox | Born xx1 Oct. mpecenrx | Died rx June spoconx.
A stone slab with open book at head, with inscription in Hebrew and Greek :—
Sacred to the Memory | of | Saxuet, Nei | infant son of | Jauss and Saran
Exisanerit Nutt, | Born and died | on the 21* October | 1871.
Many B. Barury | Died May 29, 1859 | Aged 8 months,
Emin Lovisa Fuss | Died at Urtas Deo. 14, 1858 | Aged 22 months.
Sacred | to the Memory | of | Donors Benowent | born December 1, 1857 |
Died December 12, 1858.
Putiaaow Bunouxrm | died August 17, 1859 | Age 5 months.
Donoruma Bunowia | Aged 6 years and 8 months | Died Jamary 11, 1852.
Connan James | Buncuxns | Died January 1, 1868 | Aged 11 months.
Sorut Anguatpe | Benaners | Died August 3, 1864 | Age 10 months.
Viorer Moone | born in February | And Died in June | 1872.
Huxny Davry Moone | Died July 26, 1869 | Aged 8 months,
Cuantns Nrvew Moone | Died Nov‘ 15, 1865 | Aged 8 years | and 1 month,
In | loving Memory of | Griwunr ‘T, Cxantes | Honnsters | Born July 20°,
1895 | Died August 16%, 1896,
A large sarcophagus monument of white marble. Hebrew inseription on two
sides:—Beneath this Monument rest the mortal remains of | Rosset Barssox
‘Hsq", M.P. | Eldest son of Sir Rosnr Barusox, Baronet, of Belvoir Park
Ireland | He died in Jernsalem on the 24% of December 1843 Aged 27 Years | He
was an affectionate son, a kind brother, a true friend ; | Beloved by all for the
sweciness of his disposition. | As he, was exteomed for the, sincerity of his
Character, | For the purity of his moral and religions principles, | And the Integrity
of his public conduct | His strength of mind was only equalled’ by the goodness of
his hear | Hi manners were gentle his demeanour unasmming, | And his many
virtes were farther adorned | by his varied knowledge, and highly cultivated under-
standing | Above all he neglected not the “ one thing needful ® | For with unsbaken
th and fervent piety, | He placed his whole trust in the merits of his Saviour
esas Chri, | (fly ataned of Balaton through His boo) | and died ax he ved
‘true Christian. Underneath are his Arms and Motto: * Probitas verus honos.”
A large monument, recumbent, of Aberdeen granite, with granite obelisk at head,
On both, the inscription :—Eauny Arscta Buaxn | 16 March 1868.
Sacred | to the Memory | of | Many Axw Ewaun | wife of the Rev! F.C.
Ewan | Born the 28 of May 1819 | Died the 16% of January 1844.
MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDIOA, AT
Sacred | to the Memory of | Many | the beloved wife of | Jossrx Droxexsox,
M.D. | of Liverpool | She slept in Christ | rx April arpcoonvm [sic] | Aged xxxvnit
‘Years.
8. +f M. | Jomx Boutaxp | Curate of Morpeth | Northumberland | Born xxrx
September apocoxxry"] Died xxvr April spoocivit.
Small grey marble monument in the Church, on wall of south. transept :—
W. ©. Hinturen | died 9" Angust 1840 | Age 25 | one month after arriving | from
Bngland | as Architect | of Christ Church.
In_loving Memory | of | Nutixe Apeamsox | Born April 21, 1878 | Died
May 27, 1878,
Sacred | tothe Memory | of | Joux | Werwrnavt, | Born April 1869 | Died June
27%, 1889,
In | loving Memory of | Orrve 0. Cranx | Born Jan, 7, 1889 | died August 2,
1891.
‘Marta Creasy | Died Sept. 3, 1858 | Aged 60 Years.
An upright headstone surmounted by cross (broken) and I.H.S. in pediment :—
In loving Memory of | Auxanpen Rosser | Inrewiox | of Jerusalem | who
entered into rest | June 17%, 1895.
Sacred | to the Memory | of ML. Lyows | died the 20" of June | 1852.
Sacred | to the Memory | of | Max Uwaan | died Deo. 91, 1887 | Aged 72.
Sacred to the Memory | of | Braz UNGaR | the infant daughter of Max Patar
Usadn | Born the 27! of Feb 1849 | died the 7% March | of the same year.
Sacred also to the Memory | of | Ets Uxar | sister of the same | Born the
6% September 1852 | Died thie 16" Angust 1854.
Sacred to the Memory | of | Hunny Uwoan | Born Sept. 8", 1847 | Died Jan,
16%, 1855.
In loving Memory | of | Gwonox M. Cranx | Born Jan, 8, 1886 | Died May 13,
1886,
In | loving Memory of | Grapys M, Cranx | born April 5, 1887 | died July 30,
1891.
Soored | to | the Memory of | Dona Manama | the eloved wife of he | Revt
H. Paar, M.D., ete, | born 27" March 1817 | Died 7 Jan? 1862.
, Stored | totheMemory | of | Prrsn Mrsnruttam | b.12 July 1885 | Died March
6, 1863.
‘Many Msuvttan | Born Sep. 1809 | Died Deo. 1982.
48 MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA.
A large upright ornamented stone surrounded by railing, above inscription =
Bishop's mitre :—Sacred to the Memory of the Right Rev. | Saux Gonat, D.D. |
From 1846—1879 | Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem | Born Jan, 26,1799,Died May 1,
1879, | Also of | Manta R. ©. Gonsr | His wife | Born Nov. 9, 1818, Died Aug. 1,
1879.
In loving Memory of | the Rev. Onantas Frepsnrox Westox, B.A., of Derby,
England | Curate of Wideombe, Bath ; | who fell asleep in Jesus while on a visit at
Jerusalem | April 9", 1884, aged 26.
In Memoriam | The Right Rev# Joserm Banctay, D.D., LL.D. | ‘Third Angli-
can Bishop of Jerusalem | late Rector of Stapleford, Herts | Died Oct, 22, 1881,
450 | His widow who survived him only 4 months, is buried at Ketteringham,
Norfolk | They were lovely and pleasant in’ their lives’ & in death they were not
long divided.
In
A recumbent monument with top slab of red marble. On reverse si q
et
loving Memory of | Mancaner Braxvox | 8° danghter of Bishop BARcLay
Oct, 18, 1880, Aged 8 years.
‘A mitre at head, and at the foot of this monument two coats of arms joined by
anmitre. Under mitre motto: * Dieu avee nous.”
A marble monuinent, above the inscription a Bishop's mitre:—Swcred to the
‘Memory | of the Right’ Reverend | Miciast, Sovowox Anexannxn, D.D. | First
Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem | whose Christian love | won the good will of his
brethren of Israel | whose Christian wisdom | triumphed over peculiar difficulties |
and conciliated | the high regards of other Churebes ; | whose meekness, zeal, and
Christian simplicity | secured the affection of all who knew him. | He fell asleep in
the Lord | Nov. 28, 1845 | in, the [46th] year of his ago
‘The inscription is repeated in Greek, German, and Hebrew.
(tobe continued)
Cooke,
ENTRIES ON FLY-LuavES oF 4 Braty ruirep at Campnince ny Joun Hares,
Pruvren to Tux Uxrvensrry, 1673.
‘My Daughter was born April y* second being Good Friday. She was Christned
Blizabeth April y°sixteeuth 1697,
M+ W Delaune, Godfather.
nt Binabeth $ Hervey, Godmothers.
She was married to M* J. Cooke the 14° of July 1720 by the Rev! Dé Wickart,
Dean of Winchester, in the Chapple of the Virgin Mary, within the Cathedral
Church of Winchester.
‘Thomas the son of John and Elizabeth Cooke was born at Winchester on fryday
the eleventh of August 1721 five and thirty minutes after ten a clock in the
morning, and was Christned in the Cathedral by M™ Dean Wickart on the 23¢ of y*
same month, es
¢ Tho, Williams
Mr Ea. Cooke ™* } Godfathers.
Me Sayer, Godmother.
He had the small-pox in Septembt 1781.—J. C.
86 MISCELLANEA GENHALOGICA ET HERALDICA.
1666 Dec. 28 John Ray the elder.
1671 Dec. 8 Anne Ray wife of John.
1672 June 22 Robert Ray s. of Robert.
163% Jan. 9 John Ray the elder.
168) July 2 Mary Ray wife of Robert.
1685 July 9 Robert Ray.
1701 May 24 Miriel Ray, widow.
1701 June 10 Joseph Ray the elder.
170g Feb. 22 Nathansel Ray s. of John & Mary.
1710. July 21. Nathaniel Ray s. of John,
1720 Deo. 18 Mary Ray d. of Jobn & Mar
1728 Anne Ray d. of Richard & Susan.
1780 Deo. 17 Margaret Ray d. of Richard & Susan.
(Ze be continwed)
Monumental knseriptions in Jerusalem,”
A red marble cross with stone curb, On the cross :—Atzon BurrH | ob. Feb.
XXVIT, MDdCCXOV.
An Aberdeen granite obelisk surmounted by an urn, inscription in lead
lotters:—In Memoty of Enzsxzen Jounstoxe | Bantox | of the Bengal | Civil
Service | Born at Boclefegham | Dumfriesshire | 20! March 1889 | died at Jerasa-
Jem | 2"! December 1895 | He was engaged | for many years | in the Judicial and |
Executive departments | of the | British Government | in India,
A marble cross, grave enclosed by marble curb. On the cross:—In | loving
Memory of | Many Fearne Prion.
On the back of the cross :—MAany Faanwe Parcs | Taken Home | January 18,
1885.
A small Trish oross of white marble:—In loving | Memory of | Many Eursa-
er | beloved wife of | Rey. R. Exzzorr Gaza | who fell asleep Oct. 1, 1887 |
Aged 81.
In a large railed enclosure three small upright slabs :—
GQ)" In loving Memory | of | Manta Donormza | Bencwent | born April 9,
1827 { Died July 20, 1891,
ping Als ving Memory | of | Ontssrormee | Batearrt | Born Feb. 15, 1856 |
i
April 5, 1891.
1815 | died May 18, 1890.
(B) In loving “Memory | of | Matviue Paren Benowere | Born Jan, 27,
A recumbent white marble monument :—Sacred | to the Memory of | Eowano
Macaowan, M.D. | Physician for xvir years to the | Jerusalem Mission of the
London | Society for promoting Christianity | among the Jews | who ceased from
his Inbours | and entered into his rest | on the vr February atocooLx.
Small recumbent stone :—Oviit, Hexoznt Manniorr | Filius Rev. H. Mannrorr
Biat. xxvr D. | Deo. XVIr A.D. MDGOOLXXXVI,
* Communicated by A. F, G. LavEsoN Gowen, Boq.,The Hague—continued from p. 48.
‘MISCELLANEA GHNBALOGICA RT HERALDIOA, 87
Small recumbent stone :—Saored | to the Memory | of | Jon Ronunr Henny |
Elder twin son | of the Rev! J. R, Loxousy Haut | Born at Jaffa | December
80", 1878 | Died at Jerusalem July 20, 1879 | Aged seven months.
Grapys | Rowswa Conor | whom Jesus called | to Himself May 81%, 1888 |
Aged 10 months.
Ona seroll of white stone Frans Many | Avenzy | Born March 17 | Died
August 16 | 1893.
Enizanern Cnantorre Maun | Daughter of ‘Tomas Cuartiy, M.D. | Born
Angust 29%, 1870 | died April 8, 1872.
A reoumbent monument:—In loving Memory of | Vioror Rosmson | infant
son of | Gzonck Ronixsox Les | Born in London May 29%, 1887 | died at
Jerusalem July 8, 1888
Gn the other side In loving Memory of | Horru, Axis, | the beloved. wife
of | Grona# Ronisox Less | Born in Rotherham, England, September 16%,
1861 | Died at Jerusalem Angust 21+, 1888,
A plain stone headston:
In Memory of | Antoerre P. Powe | Born Jan.
18, 1819 | Died Nov. 20, 1897.
Tune 14, 1808 | 28 years a faithful watchman on the walls of Jerusalem, | Fearless
in the midst of War, Pestilence, and Enrthquake | A master in all the learning of
the Hebrews and the Arabs | Founder of the English Hospital and Builder of the
Protestant Church | Lived beloved and died lamented | by Christians, Jews, and
‘Mahometans | the 6" day of October 1856.
‘Three inscriptions on the other three faces in Hebrew.
N.B.—In Register, Jane Dorothy Nicolayson, buried 2 Nov. 1889, age 8.
A broken ie of white marble —The Reverend Joux _Nroouaysox | Born
A recumbent monument of white marble :—Rev. Soxnuser Brarisip
Bunrowants,, M.A, | Born in Ireland 1832, ordained 1858 | Pare in heart, fervent
in Spirit, serving the Lord | He laboured in Ireland, in Spain, and in Ttaly, and in
1877 was appointed to | Christ Church, Jerusalem, | whence he departed to be with
Christ, in everything giving thanks, | June 6, 1878 | Tn his life were seen the fruits
of the Spirit, in his death | ‘That peace which passeth understanding
At the foot a cross, on the reverse side a Hebrew inscription. At the two sides
of the monument the following (north) :—Anwre Powona Buntouarnt | Born in
Rome 8% March 1875 | Died in Jernsalem 27 Dect 187.
Ga the other ide (South) In Memory of | Cuavza | the infant danghter
of | Sowmnsur and Karuaursy Bunrowants | who resis wt Florence | ill the day
awn.
A plain stone carb with small tablet at the head :—Sacred to the Memory | of
oar beloved | Hants,
A plain grave surrounded by stone eurh and stone cross at foot
memory | of | Euizasurit | wife of Rey. | Sismoxps Arrine, M.
‘Worn out by long years of | unselfish loving labours | the lastand happiest | of which
ras spent | on the Mount of Olives | She entared into rest | Fob. 4, 1892 | in her
59% year,
2 pedestal of sone with weeping Sgure atthe top>—Ia | loving memory of |
JN. Cons. | who fell asleep | in the Lard | on July 22%, 1891 | Aged 59 | For
80 years Missionary to the Jews in this City.
88 MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDIOA.
A plain stone curb with stone cross at the head. On the cross :—DoroTHy
Fonsren | the beloved wife | of | Frank. Eutzs | Jerusalem | Died April 14°,
1891 | Aged 26 years.
A plain stone curb with cross at the head. At base :—In loving Memory of
Eurza | daughter of the late | We Jearrnnsox, F.R.O.8, who died at the
‘Deaconess House in Jerusalem | May 28, 1890, Aged 7.
A. plain stone slab :—In loving remembrance | of | Euazanura | wife of |
1D. 0. JosnpH | of the | Evangelical Mission | to Israel | whom the Lord called
‘home | January 13, 1890 | This mortal | must pat on | immortality.
‘An upright headstone :—In | loving Memory | of | Peran Burewzr | born
Sept. 2, ee died Oct. 24, 788s ge
An upright stone similar to
-—In | loving memory | of | Manrita |
wife of Potin Bunanersc | Bora Sept. 8 1848 | died Fel
sb, 5, 1888,
A small recumbent headstone within a railing :—Hannter | H.’T. Burowxrs |
‘March 7, 1883 | Dear little one.
A plain stone slab, rounded at top:—To the Memory | of | Wrtttaa Hore | of
Chelford and Manchester | England, Merchant, born May 15, 1841 | died March
27,1888, Musical Gonduotor & | Revtor's Warden of Christ Church | Stockpot |
i love
"At bose +~This memorial is rected by ‘T. Kay,
A plain red marble cross. In arms of cross :—Pavt Venxren | Born in Canada
December 4, 1844 | died at Jerusalem June 25, 1888.
A recumbent stone in an iron railing with a cherub at top:—Saored | to the
Memory | of | Tuomas | Munan Hirst | who died 8 Sept, 1889, Aged 60 years.
A plain ston
In | loving memory | of | Etazaern Saxon | died Sept. 18,
1889 | Aged 38.
A plain stone :—Sarowow Aursonvr, | a | Hebrew Chris
years | in Jerusalem | died November 21 | Aged 73 years,
jan who | lived many
A plain stone with cross engraved above inscription :—Sacred to the Memory
of | Wruztaar Stxranp | who died | on the 9" of Sept* 1881 | Aged 67.
AA plain stone covering whole grave with cross at head. On stone :—Cuannies
Faupentcx Tyrwatrrr | Duaxe | Born Jan. 2, 1846 | died June 28, 1874.
‘A Hebrew inscription below.
A plain stone with broken pillar at head :—Corporal Janes Duncan | H.B.M.
Royal Engineers | Died 10 August 1868 | when employed on the Jerusalem
excavations | Erected by his Comrades,
‘A marble lab let into tone =n loving Memory of | Samaxt Aw Srarwrox |
Born in London Sept. 134, 1842 | She eame to Syria in 1864 in connection with
the | Society for promoting female | Education in the East, and | finished her
‘course | at Bethlehem Nov. 3% 1878.
MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA. 89
A small altar-tomb. On the top inscribed :—To the Memory | of | Pact. Josweit
Sra | born in Perth | Hungary | for 20 years in Jerusalem | a faithful witness
for Jesus | as the Messiah to his brethren of the house of Israel | died 10 January
1878 | aged 65 years.
‘A Hebrew inscription underneath.
A stone headstone surmounted by a cross :—In loving Memory | of | Jussrm
Last | Garnenen | the beloved wife | of | Aazoy Honwsrery | Born Jannary 28,
1880 | died October 19, 1894,
A recumbent monument, above inscription tree in a shield :—Here rests in
¢ | Consranrnee Sarva | Frvkensrety Masrmzor | Born 1812 | died Novem-
6, 1865.
An altar-tomb surrounded by_an iron railing :—Saered | to the Memory | of |
Hasan the beloved wife o | Cusviaw Hats | torn in Russa 1814 | Many
years resident in | Jerusalem ; | died 20% of November 1860.
‘A.small marble headstone with a cross engraved above:—Suored | tothe | beloved
memory of | Patatisoo 0. Uxear | born March 27, 1819 | died January 26, 1874.
A recumbent monument engraved with a cross. Below the cross :—Jomy
‘Mrstvitam | Born October 9, 1799 | Died January 8, 1878,
A plain stone, engraved :—Cnantorre Manta | Oarivy | 18 May | 1878.
A plain stone cross :—Sacred to the Memory of | Wrtram Ronare | late
Banker, Bombay | who died here | on his way home to Scotland | on the 20
of March 1878 | In the 87" year of his Age | Ereoted by his widow.
A plain stone:—Joun Bowns | Jounsron died | Nov. 6, 1859 | Aged 55
years | Resident in | Jerusalem | from Oct, 1858.
Sacred to the Memory {of | Canouen Goormn late of | Henley on ‘Thane |
England | Born on the 4 September 1806 | who after a residence of eleven years
in | Jerusalem departed this life on the | 22 November 1809,
A rock :—J. F, Paaten | 19 Dez. 1802 | 75 Jobre alt | Er heit gethan was |
Er Kénnte,
MARRIAGES OF WANDSWORTH INHABITANTS.*
1746, June 19. M+ Josue Suxrienp of Kingston-upon-Thames & M*
Exazanetn Bowus of Wandsworth, Surry. (St. George's Chapel, Mayfair.)
1746, June 28, M* James Soorr & M* Many Berswour of Wandsworth,
Surry. (St. George’s Chapel, Mayfair.)
1749 Joly, 20 John, on of James and Mary Soot, bot.
1752 ‘April 18 Richard, son of James and Mary Soott, bapt.
1755 Feb. 16 Joseph, sn of James and Mary Sent bap,
1757 Oct. 11 Mary, danghter of James and Mary Seott, bapt.
1702 Sep. 19 Mary, danghtor of James and Mary Sent, bap
1767 Feb. 7 William, son of James and Mary Scot, bapt.
1762 Mar, 28 Mary, inf. dau, of James and Mary Scot, bur.
1768 April 8 Elizabeth, inf. dau. of James and Mary Scot, bur.
* Communjeated by Cuott T. Davis, Hay—continued from p. 41,
10 8. XI. Jan. 9, 1909.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
25
lane when Hyde manor was formed, the old
course of Watling Street being then pre-
historic, and probably known only to the
learned.
Of Hyde as a manor the terms of the
Act are :—
“The site, soil, cirenit, and procincts of the
manor of Hyde, with all the demesne lands, tene-
ments, rents, meadows, and pastures of the said
manor, with all other profits and commodities to
the same pertaining, now in the tenure of one John
Arnold.”
The usual term ‘“ messuage” is not here
(nor is it with the Eybury terms), the tenant’s
dwelling being implied in the tenements.
The one manor house was that of Neyte,
the lodge of the Abbot, lord of all Kia,
whether or not divided into the lesser manors
of Neyte, Eybury, and Hyde.
W. L. Rurron.
INSCRIPTIONS IN JERUSALEM.
Tue following epitaphs and inscriptions
were copied by me during a visit to Jerusalem
in March of last year. They are on monu-
ments in the British and German Protestant
Cemetery, situated on Mount Sion, to reach
which you pass through the garden of
the Bishop Gobat Schools, beyond the
Jaffa gate. The cemetery appears to be
in the charge of theChurch Missionary Society.
Though now outside the walls, it was for-
merly within the wall which enclosed Sion
and Ophel. In the garden I saw the founda-
tion of the great corner tower, and some
remarkable Roman baths cut out of the rock.
Many white stone Roman tessere I saw on
the ground also evidenced Roman occupa-
tion.
Nos. 1-4 are near the wall between the
cemetery and the garden, on the right of the
gateway :—
1. Ernest Gordon | Farquharson | Captain R.E. |
Fell asleep in Jesus | On Easter Tuesday, April Ist,
1902. | Aged 32. | In sure and certain hope.
2. In loving memory of | Douglas | Carnegie
Brown | Who [sic] God took | to Himself 17th May,
1904. | Aged 5 months.
3. [Chi-Rho monogram.] | Alice Blyth | Ob.
Feb. xxvii. M.pecexy.
4. In loving memory | Of | Mary Maria Jacombs |
Of Birmingham, England, | Who came as Mission-
ary | to Syria in 1863. | And entered into rest | In
the Mount of Olives | May 18,1902. | Aged 64years. |
With Christ | Which is far better.
5. In deeply | Loving Memory of | Helen Attlee |
Who | After a peculiarly | happy Christian life | in
England & |as C.M.S. Missionary | from 1890 |
Ascended | From the Mt. of Olives | to be | With
Christ | Dec, 22, 1898. | Sorely missed | Till the great
reunion | By her sorrowing Father | & many Kuro-
pean & | Native Friends.—On the other side are
these texts in Arabic : John xii. 32, 1 Tim. i. 15.
6. Here lie | The remains of | John C. Whiting |
Mass. | Horatio G. Spofford, | &c.
7. In memory of | Ebenezer Johnstone Barton |
of the Bengal Civil Service | Born at Ecclefechan
Dumfriesshire | 20th March, 1839.| Died at Jeru-
salem | 2nd December 1895. | He was engaged | For
many years | In the judicial and | Executive Depart-
ments | Ofthe | British Government | In India.—On
a granite column supporting an urn.
8. In memory of | James R. Patterson | Boston,
Mass. | U.S.A. | Died | November 30th, 1897. | Aged
39 Years.—In the central square, on the right hand.
9. In| Memory | of | Elizabeth | Wife of Rev. |
Simmonds Attlee, M.A. | Worn out by long years
of | Unselfish loving labour | The last and happiest
Of which was spent | On the Mount of Olives | She
entered into rest | Feb. 4, 1892. | In her 59th year.
Blessed they rest and| their works do follow
them. | She hath been a succourer | Of many | We
rejoice in hope | Of the glory of God.—On a stone
cross on a pedestal. :
10. In| Loving Memory of | J. N. Coral | Who
fell asleep | In the Lord | On July 22nd, 1891. | Aged
59 years | For 30 years Missionary | ‘To the Jews in
this City | Blessed are ye that. sow | Beside all
waters. [On the back is this inscription :] In
Loving Memory of | Selma Coral | Born Dee. 2Ist,
1847. | Died May 9th, 1894.—This monument is a
marble angel on a stone pedestal. ‘
Il. Sacred to the Memory | Of our beloved |
Emma.—On a flat stone within a border. ;
12. In | Loving Memory | Of | Peter Bercheim |
Born Sept. 2, 1844. | Died Oct. 24, 1885. | Lord,
Thou ‘hast “been |Our dwelling ‘place | In_ all
generations. | Before the mountains | Were brought
forth | Even from everlasting to | Everlasting Thou
art God. | Psalm xc. 1, 2.—On a headstone within a
rder.
13. In| Loving Memory | Of | Martha | Wife of
Peter Bercheim | Born Sept. 8, 1848. | Died Feb. 5,
1888. | Till He come. | 1 Cor. xi. 26.—On a headstone
within a border.
14. In loving memory of | Eliza | Daughter of the
Inte | Wm. Jeaffreson, F.R.C.S. | Who died atthe
| Deaconesses’ House in’ Jerusalem | May 23, 1890.
Aged 57.| In sure and certain hope | Of a blessed
resurrection.—On a stone cross within a border.
15. Dorothy Forster | The beloved _ wife | of |
Frank T. Ellis | Jerusalem eas April 14th, 1891 |
Aged 26 years. They that be wise shall shine as |
The brightness of the firmament | And they that
turn many | To righteousness as the stars | For ever
and ever. Daniel xii. 3.—On a stone cross within a
border.
Detta.
(To be continued.)
Tue Baurmore anp “ Otp Mortatiry”
Patersons. (See 4 8. vi. 70, 187, 207, 243,
290, 354; vii. 60, 218, 264; 5S. ii. 97).—
After considerable discussion in ‘N. & Q.”
a number of years ago, it was pointed out
by Dr. Ramace, in an indirect reference
to the will of William Patterson, father of
Elizabeth (Patterson) Bonaparte, that this
William Patterson had no direct connexion
with John Paterson. son of ‘‘ Old Mortality,”
who went to Baltimore in 1774 or 1776.
27,
WSs. XL. Fes. 1909.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
163
of the 1807 edition in the British Museum
is the one in the Grenville Library, and I
could not find any MS. notes in it.
As regards the ship De Grave, which was
her correct name, and her commander Capt.
Young, Capt. Oliver in 1885 applied for
information to the India Office, and was
told by the then Registrar and Superin-
tendent of Records that
“prior to 1702 there existed two East India
Companies—the Old or London Company and
the New English Company. The former had
no such ship as the De Grave, nor any com-
mander named Young or Younge; but the New
Company had the De Grave as one of the first
three vessels they sent to India.”
On referring, however, to M. Albert
Pitot’s recently published ‘T’Eylandt
Mauritius’ (Port Louis, 1905), we find on
p- 303 an extract from a letter dated 3 April,
1703, from Deodati, the Governor of Mauri-
tius, in which he reports that Capt. Michael
Young, commander of the frigate Grove (sic)
of Bengal had arrived at the North-East
port (Port Louis) in a damaged condition
and leaky, having run aground in the Gulf
of Bengal and smashed six feet of the rudder,
Drury also relates in his ‘Journal’ that
Capt. Boon, a pirate, had been at Mauritius
“about two months before, he having just then
plundered a very rich Moorish ship, and had
taken out of her 50 Lascars [whom the pirates
were forced to leave behind for want of room].
These people we took with us.”
The extract from Deodati’s letter does
not mention the pirate-captain’s name, but
ives the namo of his ship (“le corsaire
preek Trumpet’), and states that 30 blacks,
10 Lascars, and 2 young children, also Las-
ears-—all landed from the pirate ship, and
detained in Mauritius the previous year—
were sent to the Cape by the same damaged
vessel (the De Grave), as they would not
work on the island and were at the charge of
the Company, who had to find them salt for
their fish.
The Capt. Boon in question was no other
than the notorious pirate John Bowen, whose
biography is given in Capt. Charles John-
son’s ‘History of the Pyrates’ (vol. ii.
pp. 49 et seq., and additions at p. 371 and
passim), where one of his ships is named
the Speaker. On another page M. Pitot
calls the ship “le corsaire Speaking Trumpet
(le Porte-Voix) ” in his narrative, but quotes
the official text of a resolution of the Council
of the 9th of January, 1702 (from the Cape
of Good Hope Archives), wherein the pirate
ship is also called the Speaker.
M. Pitot finds fault with some of Drury’s
dates, but the greater part of the difficulty
will vanish if we remember that Drury’s
ship passed through the downs on 19 Feb.,
1701, Old Style, that is in 1702. L. L. K.
INSCRIPTIONS IN JERUSALEM.
(See ante, p. 25.)
I conctuve the list of inscriptions copied
by me at Jerusalem last March :—
16. CharlesFrederick Tyrwhitt | Drake | Born Jan.
2nd, 1847 [2]. | Died 1871 [2]. | This is life eternal that
they might know | Thee the only God and Jesus
Christ | Whom Thou hast sent.—There is also an
Arabic inscription; and a cup in the stone. Ona
stone cross on a slab.
17. Corporal James Duncan|H.B.M. Royal
Engineers | Died 10 August, 1868 | When employed
on the | Jerusalem Excavations. | Erected by ‘his
Comrades.—On a broken column on a slab.
18. In loving memory of | Sarah Ann Stanton
Born in London Sept. 13, 1842. | She came to Syria
in 1864 | In connection with the | Society for Pro-
moting Female | Education in the East, and |
Finished her course | At Bethlehem, Nov. 3rd, 1878.
| Thanks be to God which | Giveth us the victory |
Through our Lord Jesus | Christ. 1 Cor. xv. 57.
—On a flat marble slab.
19. In loving memory
Died Easter Morn
20. In memory | of | Rev. James Henry Vidal |
Vicar of Chiddingly | County of Essex {Sussex}
England | Who died March 15, 1875| Aged 55
There remaineth therefore | a rest for the People of
God. | Hebr. 4 ch. 9 v.—On a railed flat stone.
21. Sacred | To the memory | ot] Caroline Cooper
| late of | Henley on Thames | England | Bornon the
4 September, 1806 | Who after a residence of eleven
years | in Jerusalem | Departed this life on the |
22 November, 1859. | Looking for that blessed hope.
and the | glorious appearing of the great God and |
Saviour Jesus Christ. Titus 2. 13. | Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from | henceforth, yea,
saith the Spirit, that they may | rest from their
labours, | And their works do follow them. Rev. 14.
13.—On a flat stone.
2. John Bowes Johnston died | Nov. 6, 1859. |
Aged 55 years.| Resident in| Jerusalem | From
Oct. 1838.—On a flat stone.
23. Beneath this monument rest the mortal
remains of | Robert Bateson, Esq. M.P. | Eldest son
of Sir Robert Bateson, Baronet, | Of Belvoir Park,
Treland. | He died in Jerusalem on the 24th of
December, 1843 | Aged 27 years. | He was an affec-
tionate son, a kind brother, a true friend ; | Be-
loved by all for the sweetness of his disposition, |
As he was esteemed for the sincerity of his cha-
racter | For the purity of his mind and religious:
principles | And the integrity of his public con-
Mast Sliaselsenptht of artnet ene Gly aati hg
the goodness of his heart, | His manners were
gentle, his demeanour unassuming | And his many
virtues were further adorned | By his varied know-
ledge and highly cultivated understanding. | Above
all he neglected not the one thing needful | For
with unshaken faith and fervent piety | He placed
his whole trust in the mercy of his Saviour Jesus
Christ | (fully assured of salvation through His
blood) | And died as he had lived, a true Christian...
164
NOTES AND QUERIES.
{10 8. XI. Fes. 27, 1909.
—On a marble cenotaph with horns at the corners,
and a shield bearing a lion above three wings, with
the motto beneath “ Probitas Verus Honos.”
24. Emily Alicia Bland | 16 March, 1868.—On a
red granite obelisk on a pedestal.
25. Mary Chris- | tina Coral | Died Aug. 3, 1868.
Aged 16 months
heaven.—On a flat stone.
26. James Stephen Coral | died May 4, 1879. |
Age 9 months | Thou, Lord, didst it—On a flat
stone.
27. Christopher Samuel Coral born |died 7] Oct. 31,
1878. | He sent from above, He took | him because
He delighted in him. | Psalm 18. 16, 19.—On a flat
stone.
28. George Dalton, M.D. | Missionary | to the |
Jews | Died Jan. 25, 1826.—On a flat stone.
29. Henry David Moore | Died July 26, 1869.—
On a flat stone.
30. Violet Moore | Born in February | And died
in May. 1872,—On a flat stone.
31. Emily Louisa Finn | Died at Urtas, Dec. 17,
1858.| Aged 2} months. | Jesus said | Suffer
little children | to come unto Me.—On a flat
stone.
82. Mary Bailey | Died May 25, 1859. | Aged
8 months. | Of such | Is the Kingdom of Heaven.
33, Daniel Fast, | &c.—On a sloping stone.
34. Sacred | To the Memory of | Cecil A. Hillyer
Bisshopp | The infant son of Sir Cecil and Lady
Bisshopp | who died at Jerusalem on the 5th of
May 1844.| Aged 6 months|And He shall
gather the lambs in His | Arms and carry them
in His bosom. | Even so, Father, for so it seemeth
good in Thy sight—On a marble slab on the
end wall.
35. In loving memory | of | Ellen Clark |
Born June 3rd, 1832, | Died March 20th, 1904. |
Thou wilt not | leave my soul |in the grave.—
On an upright tinted marble monument.
36. In| loving memory of| Gladys M. Clark
| Born April 5, 1887.| Died July 30, 1891. |
She is not dead | but sleepeth.—On a stone scroll.
37. In loving memory | of | George M. Clark |
Born Jan. 3, 1886.| Died May 13, 1886. | Safe
in the arms of Jesus.—On a stone scroll.
38. Sacred to the memory of |M. Lyons.—
On a flat stone.
39. In| loving memory | of | Winefred | Ethel
Clark | Born July 5th, 1892. | Died May 30, 1900.
| For of such is the | Kingdom of Heaven—On
a marble cross on a stone rock.
40. S. T. M. | John Holland | Surrogate of Mor-
peth | Northumberland | Born xxix. September,
mpocoxxiv. | Died xxvi. Apr. MbcccLvit. | In
peace.—On a flat stone.
41. Sacred | to the
beloved wife of| Joseph Dickinson, 1
Liverpool. | She slept in Christ | ix.
Mpecevit. | Aged xxxviii
my Redeemer liveth.
granite flat slab.
42. Sacred to the memory of | William Rodgie
| Late Banker of Bombay | who died here | On
his way home to Scotland | on the 20th of March,
1873 |in the 37th year of his age. | Erected by
his widow.—On a marble cross on a base.
43. In loving memory | of | John Dickson |
H.B.M. Consul, Jerusalem. | 1890-1906. | Born
17 June, 1847| Died 4 July, 1906.| Be thou
faithful unto death and | I will give thee a crown
of life.—On a marble cross.
memory of | Mary | the
D. | of
April,
iii. years.|I know that
Job xix.—On a blue
Of such |is the kingdom of |
44. Charlotte Maria | Ogilvy | Died 18 May,
1878.—On a flat stone.
45. In loving memory of | The Rey. Charles
Frederick Weston, B.A. of Derby | England,
Curate of Widcombe, Bath, who fell asleep | in
Jesus while on a visit at Jerusalem. | April 9th,
1884. Aged 26.—On a pointed stone cenotaph.
46. In Memoriam |'The Right Revd. Joseph
Barclay, D.D., LL.D. | Third Anglican Bishop
of Jerusalem. | Late Rector of Stapleford, Herts.
| Died Oct. 22, 1881. Aged 50. | His widow,
who survived him only 4 months, is | buried at
Ketteringham, Norfolk. |'They were lovely in
their lives, and were not divided | in their death.
In loving memory of | Margharit Brandon |
3rd daughter of Bishop Barclay, who died Oct.
|18, 1880. Aged 8 years—On a pink marble
cenotaph.
47. Rev. Somerset Braficld Burtchael, ¥
| Born in’ Ireland, 1832. Ordained 1858 |
in heart, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. |
| He laboured in Ireland, in Spain, and in | Italy,
and in 1877 was appointed to | Christ Church,
Jerusalem, | whence he departed to be with
Christ, in’ everything | giving thanks, June 6,
1878. | In his life were seen the fruits of the Spirit,
|in his death | That peace which passeth under-
| standing.—On a marble cenotaph.
A Hebrew
inscription is on the other side.
48. Annie Romola Burtchael | Born in Rome
8th March, 1875 | Died in Jerusalem 27th Dec,
1877. | Jesus called a little child unto Him.
49. In memory of | Claudia | The infant
daughter of | Somerset and Katharine Burtchael
| Who rests at Florence | Until the day dawn.
—0On a sloping marble slab.
0, Reverend John Nicolayson | Born June ist,
1803. | 23 years a faithful watchman on the walls
of Jerusalem | fearless in the midst of war,
pestilence, and earthquake | A master in all the
learning of the Hebrews and the Arabs—Founder
of the English Hospital and builder of the Pro-
testant Church | Lived beloved and died lamented
| By Christians, Jews, and Mahometans | the
| 6th day of Oct., 1856.
On another side is a Hebrew inscription, and :
The memory of the just | is blessed | Prov. x. 7
On a third side is'a Hebrew inscription, and :
The righteous is taken away | From the evil to
come. | Is. lvii. 1.
On a fourth side is a Hebrew inscription, and :
Blessed are the peace makers | For they shall
be called the | Children of God. | Matt. v. 9.
On a broken marble column.
51. In memory of | Antoinette P. Powle. |
Born Jan. 13, 1819.| Died Nov. 20, 1897. |
Tarry till I come. | John xxi. 22.—On an upright
headstone.
52. In loving memory of | Victor Robinson |
Infant son of | George Robinson Lees | Born. in
London May 29th, 1887.| Died at Jerusalem
July 8th, 1888.
On the other side is inscribed : In loving memory
of | Edith Annie| the beloved wife of George
Robinson Lees | Born in Rotherham, England,
September 10th, 1861. | Died at’ Jerusalem
August Ist, 1888.
On a stone cenotaph.
53. Elizabeth Charlotte Maud | daughter of
Thomas Chaplin, M.D. | Born August 19th, 1870.
| Died April 8th, 1872. | He shall gather the
lambs with His| arms and carry them in His
| bosom. | Isaiah xl. 11.—On a flat stone.
10 8. XI. Fes. 27, 1909. }}
NOTES AND QUERIES.
54. Sacred to the memory|of the Right
Reverend | Michael Solomon Alexander, D.D. |
First Protestant Bishop in Jerusalem | whose,
Christian love | won the good will of his brethren
of Israel | Whose Christian wisdom | Triumphed
over peculiar difficulties | And conciliated | The
high regards of other Churches | Whose meekness,
zeal, and Christian simplicity | Secured the affec-
tion’ of all who knew him. | He fell asleep in the
Lord | Nov. 23, 1845. | In the year of his
age | By the grace of God, I am what I am.
On the second side is'a Greek inscription, on
the third a German, and on the fourth a Hebrew.
Upon a large monument of four varieties of stone.
55. Sacred |'To the memory of the Right
Re |Samuel Gobat, D.D.| From 1846-1879 |
Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem | Born Jan. 26,
1799. Died May 11, 1879.| Also of Maria
R, C. Gobat| His wife| Born Nov. 9, 1813.
Died_Aug. 1879.| Blessed are the dead which
die|In the Lord, yea|Saith the Spirit, that
they may | Rest from their | Works. Rev. xiv. 13.
On the second side is an Arabic inscription ;
on the third, one in Hebrew; and on the fourth
one in German, with a marble medallion of the
Bishop's head. On an upright panel is cut
a mitre.
56. In| Loving memory of | Mary Fearne
Price | Until the day break | And the shadows
flee away.
On the other side is inscribed: Mary Fearne
Price | Taken home | January 18, 1885.
On a stonecross.
57. She is not {
Dead, but | Sleepeth. | In
loving | Memory of | Mary Elizabeth | Beloved
wife of | Rev. R. Elliott Goza | Who fell asleep
Oct. 1, 1887. | Aged 31.—On a stone wheel cross,
58. In|] Loving Memory of | Robert Houghton
| Only child | Of1 Richard and Frances ©.
Hughes | Died April 17th, 1899. Aged 3 years
4 months. | Jesus called a little Child ‘unto
Him. Matt. xviii. 2—On a marble cross.
59. In loving memory | Of | Sydney |Son_ of
| Thomas and Caroline | Gibbon | Of Bowdon,
England, and C.M.S. Missionary | in Jerusalem |
Who fell asleep|July 19, 1899.| Aged 30.
Ready to die at Jerusalem! For the Name |
Of the Lord Jesus.—On a flat stone.
60. Gladys_| Rowena Connor | Whom Jesus
called To Himself | May 3ist, 1888. | Aged
10 months.—On a flat stone.
61. Cyril Herbert Marriott | Filius Rev. Herbert
Marriott | Dec. xvi., &e.—A Latin text follows.
On a flat stone.
62. Sacred | To the memory of | Edward Mac-
cowan, M.D.| Physician for seventeen years
to the Jerusalem Mission of the | Society for
Promoting Christianity | Among the Jews | And
entered into his rest | On the vi. February, 1860.
| Unto you which believe ; Christ is precious |
1 Peter ii. 7.
Besides the above, there are inscriptions
to Katie Kelk (63), F. W. Adeney (64), H.
Israel (65), M. Benoriel (66), Dr. Schick (67),
M. Dickinson (68), E. Piazza (69), R. Batte-
sen (70), W. Hope (71), the Rev. C. F.
Waton (72), C. H. Hillyer (73), and others
in Arabic and German. Deura.
Lorp MacavLay AND WILLIAM JOHN
Txoms.—That the originator of ‘N. & Q.,”
a journal founded for the solving of problems,
should himself form the subject for a problem,
would indeed have been a matter of surprise
to him, yet ‘‘ Claudius Clear ” recently offered
in The British Weekly a book for the best reply
to the following :—
“Lord Macaulay once met Mr. W. J. Thoms,
the antiquary, in the Library of the House of
Lords. Mr. Thoms mentioned to Lord Macaulay
that he could not quite understand why Pope
had satirised Dryden in ‘The Dunciad.’ rd
Macaulay said that Mr. Thoms must be mistaken,
and with his usual eloquence, before an audience
of a score of peers, he spoke for nearly half an
hour in support of his opinion, and proved beyond
all doubt that it was impossible that Pope could
or would have lampooned Dryden. Mr. Thoms
had all this time a copy of ‘The Dunciad’ in
his pocket, with the page turned down at the
passage. What should Mr. Thoms have done,
and why ?”
In The British Weekly for the 4th inst.
it was announced that the prize had been
awarded to R. M. Rees, Paulton, Bristol, who
had replied as follows :—
“Mr. Thoms should have gone home and sent
a letter to Lord Macaulay, quoting the lines
referred to and giving the place where they could
be found, at the same time thanking Lord
Macaulay for his most interesting and illuminating
discussion of the subject, which both for Mr.
‘Thoms’ own sake and that of the other auditors,
he had found himself quite unable to interrupt.”
Claudius Clear adds :—
“What Mr. Thoms did, I believe, was to
go home and to take no action whatever, but
curiously enough no competitor has suggested
this course.”
Between Macaulay and Thoms, as I am
aware, there was a feeling of deep regard.
My father has often spoken to me of their
friendship, and the respect the great his-
torian had for our founder’s estoy:
mn.
tion on the 17th of vols.
‘ History.’ Twenty-five thousand copies had
been printed, but these were not sufficient
to meet the demand, and “the press is
already at work on a second impression.”
Joun C. Francis.
326
NOTES AND QUERIES.
May 11, 1935,
Literary and Historical
Notes.
THE EUROPEAN CEMETERY IN
JEDDA.
E first record that has so far been traced
in the British archives of the existence
of a non-Moslem cemetery at Jedda (see App.
III., n. a, as regards the name) is contained
in a report to the Foreign Office, dated Jan.
28, 1860, in which G. E. Stanley (Vice-Consul
and afterwards Consul from 1859 to 1864)
drew attention to the then state of the ceme-
tery. In this report Stanley reproduced in-
formation to the effect that prior to 1820
there had been no Christian burial-ground
at Jedda, and that the Christians had been
“obliged to bury their dead at sea, or in
one of the numerous sandbanks that intersect
the harbour.’’ Mehmed Ali Pasha had,
however, during the Egyptian occupation
of the country, ‘‘ granted to the Christians
a small piece of ground on the desert outside
the town, which was considered a great boon
by the small Christian colony then resident,
and was immediately walled in by them.”
lf the date of origin suggested in this report,
ie., the year 1820, is approximately correct,
it is interesting to note how closely it cor-
responds with that at which British subjects
acquired the right of burial at Mocha under
the Anglo-Yemeni Treaty signed there on
Jan. 15, 1821, by a representative of the
Imam and Captain Bruce, the British Agent.
Article 3 of this treaty reads in the English
text: ‘‘ A piece of ground to be all for
a cemetery; and none of those under the
British Government and flag to be spoken to
or insulted on account of their religion ’’ ;
the more picturesque Arabic counterpart of
which has been re-translated: ‘‘ The dead of
the English, that the Almighty and Supreme
God orders their souls to be snatched away,
there shall be a place appointed and set apart
from [sic] them that they may bury their
dead in it; no one shall say to them ‘the
practice of your sect is such or such; it is
not good’”’ (Aitchison’s Collection of
Treaties, etc., Revised Edition, Calcutta,
1933, Vol. xi., p. 172).
In his despatch of Jan. 28, 1860, Consul
Stanley went on to state that the original
wall had by then fallen into so ruinous a
state as to afford no protection against dese-
cration by men and animals. The space,
moreover, measuring only 17 yards by 7,
was completely filled; so much so that it
had recently been found impossible, when
digging a grave for the English captain of
a British re i to avoid disturbing other re.
mains. Stanley added that, since his ap.
pointment in January, 1859, eleven
Christians, mostly sailors belonging to visit-
ing ships, had been buried in the cemetery,
He saw no reason to anticipate a diminu-
tion in 1860, as a greater number of shi;
were expected and nothing was done b; the
authorities to improve the sanitary condition
of Jedda or to mitigate ‘“‘the frightful
amount of disease that is brought into the
town during the pilgrimage.”
Stanley submitted a proposal, made by M.
Rousseau, the French Consul and himself,
for the repair and enlargement of the ceme-
tery to twice its existing size at an estimated
cost of £100, to be contributed in equal parts
by the British and French Governments. It
was further proposed, if the enlargement were
effected, to remove to the cemetery the remains
of the two Consuls and other victims of the
massacre of June, 1858 (see App. III., n. b).
These remains had at the time been “ igno-
miniously thrown together into a trench with
nothing to mark where they Jay and which
at certain periods was overflowed by the sea.”
The British and French Governments
agreed to share the proposed expenditure.
Sublime Porte was approached, and in
June, 1860, the British Ambassador in Con-
stantinople reported that instructions for the
enlargement of the cemetery had been sent
to the Governor of Jedda. Residents and
others connected with Jedda made good an
excess in expenditure over the amount which
had been estimated.
On Aug. 12, 1865, M. E. de Sainte Marie,
who was apparently French Consul and act-
ing British Consul at Jedda, reported to
the British Agent and Consu) General in
Egypt that he had obtained from the
Governor General of the Hejaz the grant
“a l’Angleterre et & la France” of “ une
nouvelle concession de terrain pour un second
Cimetiére chrétien en cette ville, car |’ ancien,
créé depuis sept ans seulement, a été rempli
en grande partie cette année par les soldats
Cophtes qui sont morts dans les rangs de
l’Armée tienne.”” (See App. III., n. ¢).
He had asked the French Government to con-
tribute 2,000 francs and asked the British
Government to contribute a like amount ‘‘pour
les constructions nécessitées par la nouvelle
enceinte.”” He proposed to devote 300 francs,
out of the total sum of 4,000 francs, to the
May 11, 1935.
construction of a tomb for the Consuls mur-
dered in 1858, who were still buried on the
seashore without any sort of memorial.
The British and French Governments sanc-
tioned this proposal and the former remitted
to Jedda a sum of £80 for general expendi-
ture plus £6 for their share in the proposed
memorial. In 1866, however, a Consul who
was then about to leave reported that for
various reasons the prop work had not
been carried out, and returned the £86 which
had been provided by the British Govern-
ment, The identity of this officer is not clear
from the papers available in Jedda, as
Arthur Raby, who was titular British Con-
sul from 1865 to 1871, but who was not neces-
sarily in Jedda all that time, would hardly
have taken so definite a step in 1866.
The language used by M. de Sainte Marie
in August, 1865, definitely suggests that an
entirely new cemetery was then contemplated.
It has not been possible to ascertain, how-
ever, what actually happened between 1866
and 1879. It remains uncertain whether the
original cemetery was merged into a new
enclosure or whether a new cemetery, in fact,
came into existence. On the one hand, it
has been suggested vaguely that the old ceme-
tery was in the sandhills to the north of the
town and the oldest memorials in the present
cemetery are those which commemorate the
Debars, who died in 1870 and 1872 respect-
ively. On the other hand, a very aged Nica
lem inhabitant of Jedda assured a member
of the British Legation staff in 1934 that in
his boyhood, over seventy years earlier, the
Christian cemetery occupied its present posi-
tion.
Tt is equally uncertain how or when the
memorial to the victims of the 1858 massacre
came into existence. It had not been erected
in 1866, but it was a feature of the ceme-
tery in 1881.
The only British records which have been
traced for the obscure period from 1866 to
1878, are two reports by the British Consul
in 1874-75. In December, 1874, he found the
cemetery in fair condition, although in need
of repair. On a subsequent visit in March,
1875, he found that the gate had been forced
and done to several graves. The
Governor repaired all this damage at the in-
stance of the Consular body.
All that can be affirmed with certainty is
that the history of the present cemetery goes
back to 1870, if it can be assumed that the
memorials to the Debars were contemporary
and were originally placed in it; and that
NOTES AND QUERIES. 327
the memorial to the victims of the 1858 mas-
sacre had not been erected up to 1866. This
memorial was presumably in existence in
1879, when the cemetery again attracted
serious attention, and it was expressly men-
ticned in 1881 as a monument requiring at-
tention,
On Nov. 11, 1879, the British Consul,
James Zohrab, reported on a proposal to
creat a new cemetery and in the following
January H.M. Government agreed to contri-
bute a sum not exceeding for this pur-
pose. The proposal was ultimately aband-
oned in favour of an arrangement to enlarge
the existing cemetery, and the execution of
this plan was expedited in the following cir-
cumstances :
Madame Rubelli, the wife of the Austrian
Lloyd Agent, who was also Austrian Vice-
Consul, died on Feb, 13, 1881, and was buried
in the cemetery on the following day.
The funeral was numerously attended by
Christians and Moslems and the deplorable
state of the cemetery caused so much emo-
tion that, at the instance of M. Yusuf Kudsi,
the Moslem Dragoman of the British Con-
sulate, a meeting was held the same day at
the house of M. Knuyt, the Netherlands
Consul and doyen of the Consular body. The
control of the cemetery was transferred from
the exclusive charge of the French Vice-Consul
to that of a committee of five persons under
the presidency of M. Knuyt. Certain mem-
bers of the Christian community took excep-
tion to the acceptance of subscriptions from
Moslems, an attitude which Mr. Zohrab, the
British Consul, strongly resisted. In the
event a fund of 856 dollars was collected, of
which 478 dollars were subscribed by forty-
five Christians and Jews and 378 dollars by
nine Moslems.
The new committee worked with such zeal,
under the auspices of M. Knuyt, that on
Mar. 31, 1881, Consul Zohrab was able to
report that the cemetery had been greatly en-
larged and enclosed by a well-built stone wall
two metres high, which it was proposed to
surmount with an iron railing one metre
high. This, together with an iron gate, had
been ordered from England. A small house
for a watchman had been built near the gate.
The interior had been cleared and levelled,
and Mr. Zohrab added, ‘‘ the Committee pro-
pose re-erecting in a neat manner the monu-
ment to the memory of the victims of the
massacre of 1858 and placing an ornamental
iron cross on it.” Shrubs were also to be
planted.
328
NOTES AND QUERIES.
May 11, 1935,
In these circumstances, Consul Zohrab con-
sidered that the need for a new piece of
ground had ceased to be urgent, and that
there was no present need to change the
burial-ground, provided the authorities
would assist by opening a gate in the town
wall towards the cemetery and making a short
Piece of road. It is not clear that the gate
in the town wall was opened at that time.
In a much later report by the British Agent
in 1921, it is stated that “‘ last year a gate
was let in the city wall to permit a direct
access to it [cemetery] for funerals.”’
In August, 1881, several months after the
work of enlargement had actually been done,
the British bassy in Constantinople for-
warded to the Consulate a copy of a note
from the Sublime Porte of July 28, 1881,
plea gic an agreement between the Consuls
and the local authorities not to proceed with
the proposal for a new cemetery but to enlarge
the existing one by taking in additional
ground to the width of 10 arabins on the
east and south. The question of the precise
effect given to this understanding will be
dealt with later.
Such British records as can be traced after
1881 are very meagre. On Mar. 7, 1882, the
orn ee Consul convened the Christian
British residents to attend a meeting at the
French Consulate the next day to elect a new
committee. On Jan. 24, 1883, the French
Vice-Consul informed his British colleagues
that his, (the French Consul’s) term as Pre-
sident of the Committee had come to an end,
and asked that British subjects should be in-
vited to a meeting on Jan. 27 for the hand-
ing over of his powers to the Austrian Vice-
Consul, who was to take over for the ensu-
ing year, and to receive a statement of
account. For many years there is no further
written record but the former Indian Vice-
Consul, Dr. Muhammad Husain, recalls that
once in the time of Consul Devey (1896 to
1906) subscriptions were wollagtod and re-
pairs effected. In 1910 the cemetery was
again in a dilapidated state. H.M. Govern-
ment were at first unwilling to incur expendi-
ture, but in 1911 they agreed to follow the
example of the Austro-Hungarian, Belgian,
French, Italian and Netherlands Govern-
ments and made a grant of £20 towards re-
pairs. It appears that in the following year
the finances were on a basis of annual sub-
scriptions, each Consul contributing £2 a
year.
In a general report for December, 1920,
Major Batten, D.A., then Acting British
Agent at Jedda, mentioned that the ceme
tery had fallen into disrepair, a matter
which, apart from other considerations,
should not, he said, be allowed to appear
as being of no concern to the non-Moslem
community. The foreign representatives had
therefore held a meeting at which it was de
cided that the foreign ncies or consulates
should each contribute a fixed annual sum for
maintenance as from Jan. 1, 1921, and
should take charge in turn for a year each,
The rate of subscription was fixed at £5 per
annum for each mission, and an additional
sum of £70 was collected privately.
This system of annual sotecs| pone and
rotation of control sppeats to have been main-
tained in principle from 1920 onward but to
have worked irregularly in practice, Eventu-
ally on July 24, 1930, the British, French,
Italian, and Netherlands representatives
held a meeting and constituted themselves,
subject to the concurrence, where necessary,
of their colonies, into a standing committee
to work on a definite programme. the general
principles of which were agreed. The rota-
tion system was maintained in ponies and
the British Legation assumed charge in suc
cession to the Netherlands Legation, which
had managed the cemetery for some time pre-
viously. The execution of the programme
was delayed by various vicissitudes. Although
minor repairs were effected in 1932, little
serious attention could be given to the ceme
tery until 1933, when it was cleared of rub
bish and somewhat further repaired. The
plan and list of monuments bo. gary to this
record were then also prepared. It was not,
however, until April 7, 1934, that it was
possible to hold a further meeting of the
committee.
It is not necessary to deal further with the
period 1930-34, as a full account of it is given
in the report circulated to the interested
missions, now including the Legation of the
U.S.S.R., on Feb. 11, 1934, and the minutes
of the meeting held on April 7, 1934. These
papers deal as with finance.
The foregoing account explains the uncer-
tainty as to whether any portion of the exist-
ing cemetery dates from before 1866. It is
clear, however, that one portion of it, form-
ing the north-western part of the present
‘ound, was used from shortly after that
‘ate, although the limits cannot be deter
mined. The distribution of graves is very
irregular, and it is not certain that the en-
largement effected in 1881
correspon!
May 11, 1935.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
329
exactly with the proposal recorded in the
Sublime Porte’s note of July 28, 1881,
although it may be assumed that the exten-
sion was to the south and east,-as therein
contemplated. The north wall contains
traces of an earlier gateway between the pre-
sent gate and the north-west corner. his
teway must have continued in use after
‘pa, as the caretaker’s lodge was stated to
have been built “‘ near the gate.” No trace
remains of the iron gate, which it was in-
tended at that time to procure in England,
although the wall was in due course sur-
mounted by the proposed iron railing, parts
of which survived until 1934, when the re-
mains were removed owing to their rusted
and unsightly condition.
It is clear, from a comparison of the
account given in 1881 of the work done under
the auspices of M. Knuyt’s Committee and
the plan appended to this record, that there
has been no material change in the general
layout of the cemetery since 1881. The lay-
out has not been affected by the repairs
effected since the plan was proposed in 1933.
Apart from the re-building of the caretaker’s
lodge and the consolidation of the wall, the
only changes of importance have been the
construction of a low wall between
‘the portion of the ground occupied by
graves and the portion which is still
empty, and the experimental plantation
in the latter. This consists at present
of a double row of Atriplex Hortensis, mark-
ing a path from the middle of the east wall
to the-new low dividing wall, and a small
number of palms in the two rectangles form-
ing the north-east and the south-east portions
of the ground,
It is possible that many graves and some
monuments have completely disappeared,
eg., from the apparently empty spaces in the
existing rows of graves. One informant
thinks that he recalls a number of monu-
ments, including that of Lloyd (Appendix ii.,
No, 11) along what he supposes to have been
the east wall. It is sat i however, that
he got his orientation wrong and that, if
such monuments existed, they were along the
west wall. There is no reason to suppose
that the eastern portion of the cemetery, as
enlarged in 1881, was ever brought into use.
The following documents are appended to
this record :
_ 1. A complete list of memorials existing
in the cemetery in July, 1933, with copies of
inscriptions and some biographical notes.
Il. A provisional list of persons not com-
‘memorated by existing monuments but be-
lieved to have died in Jedda and presumed,
except where otherwise stated, to tae been
‘buried in the cemetery.
III. A series of notes on matters mentioned
‘in the record.
The plan already referred to, reproduced
at post pp. 332, 333, shows the lay-out of the
cemetery in July, 1933. Consecutive numbers
have been assigned to all plots, which present
the appearance of separate graves, but the
‘identification of such plots as graves is not
always certain.
Anprew Ryan,
[K.B.E., C.M.G., His Britannic
Majesty’s Minister Plenipo-
tentiary at Jedda.]
(To be continued).
SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE’S NOTES ON
THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL.
(See clxvii. 363, 400, 438; ante pp. 5, 42,
74, 111, 151, 182, 219, 255, 295).
Mawean in Pyper. St. Mewan.
Feby. 3, 1854,
This Church is beautifully situated in a
valley opening to the Sea, shaded by a grove
of several fine trees, and closely adjoining
the fine old mansion of Lanherne, now occu-
pied by Carmelite nuns. The Plan is two
equal aisles, a North Transeptal Chapel and
South Porch, a Tower on the S. side near
the centre; the whole as usual Cornish
Perpendr.
The arcade of the Nave is of 4 bays, of
the Chancel of 2, the arches and piers like
other examples and unfortunately white-
washed, There is a wall pier interval mark-
ing the distinction of Nave and Chancel and
a good rood-screen of wood, of 5 piers, with
tracery, painted and gilt, fair groining and
shafts. The 2 East windows are of 5 lights,
differing from each other, and not bad in
character. The other windows chiefly of 3
lights, those on the N. inferior in character ;
some are square-headed. The interior is
rather dirty and neglected, especially the N.
Chapel. In this Chapel is a coer A into
the Chancel. There are plbeinss old carved
bench-ends. The Tower is of good outline
and chiefly of granite, embattled, with good
octagonal D gee oases and an octagonal turret
at the N.E. which rises above the parapet, is
embattled and surmounted by a pyramid and
4 little pinnacles. The Belfry windows are
of 3 lights. On the S. side is a door and a
3-light window above it. The buttresses aro
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ROWS AND SPACES ARE IN FACT MUCH MORE IRREGULAR THAN
WOULD APPEAR TROM THE DIAGRAM.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
May 18, 1935,
sponsible for order, as this article shows,
have to look out warily against disturbance,
and in the course of describing a most
troublesome day of that kind, Mr. poate |
gives us some details about the cutting and
shipping of the fruit. Note is sent to the |
wharf superintendent by cable of the exact |
number of stems (it may be 30,000, it may
be 80,000) that any one ship can take. The |
superintendent divides the amount out by
District, notifying the District Chief Clerks |
by telephone; these then divide the amounts |
severally allotted to them among the farms. |
Each overseer on a farm is told exactly how |
many stems he must cut—not more and not
less, or there is trouble. Cutting the fruit is a
business performed by contract at so much a
stem. Different grades have to be cut for dif-
ferent markets in proportion to their dis-
tance; thin fingers for far-away England;
rather fuller ones for New York and Canada,
reached by a journey only half as long; fat |
round fingers for New Orleans, only four days |
away. e fruit-cutter has to estimate the
fruit where it grows at a height of from 12 to
15ft. He first cuts the stem partly through
with a small sharp knife set at the end of
a long pole which supports the fruit as it
is lowered towards the ground; then he
severs it entirely with his machete. It will
be seen that both judgment and skill in con-
siderable degree are required of the fruit-
cutters. Accordingly they are picked men.
Each of them is supported by a backer who
carries the severed stem to the nearest mule-
path, and, like the mule men, to whom he
hands it on, must be a careful, skilful person,
for knock or friction makes the black marks
one may often observe on bananas in shops—
blemishes that reduce value. Four stems
make a mule’s load.
[SE London and Middlesex Archaeological
Society offers yearly a silver research
medal and a prize of five guineas for the
best original contribution on a subject or
subjects to be notified by the Council. The
subjects selected for 1935 are: (1) Saxon
Churches in London and Middlesex ; (2) The
London Wal! during the mediaeval —
(3) Mediaeval Remains in City of London
Churches. Competitors may submit essays
on any one or mcre of the above subjects.
The papers shuld not exceed 20,000 words
in length ; they may be freely illustrated with
maps and other diagrams. They must reach |
the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Maurice W.
Bingham, Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, |
London, E.C.2, not later than 30 Apr., 1936.
Literary and Historical
_ Notes.
THE EUROPEAN CEMETERY IN
JEDDA,
(See ante p. 326).
Appenpix I,
IST of Memorials in the European
Cemetery in Jedda, made in June-July,
1933, at the same time as the plan of the
cemetery.
The numbers refer to those in the plan,
The linear arrangement of the inscriptions
is shown by cross-bars, but no attempt is
made to reproduce differences of script.
First Row of Graves.
2. Nature. Fragment of horizontal sl
of white marble, _ eae
Condition. Fragmentary.
Inscription. Nothing left.
3. Nature. Remnant of monument, ap-
parently in the form of a cross. At present
consists of only a lower slab about 2ft. by
1ft. 6ins. surmounted by a smaller slab carry-
ing a fragment of the base of the original
cross.
Condition. Ruined, as above.
Nothing left.
Inscription.
4. Nature. Grey headstone of polished
granite.
Condition. Well preserved.
Inscription :—
HIER RUST | H.V.D, HOUVEN VAN OORDT |
CONSUL | DER NEDERLANDEN | 8/7 1865—26/7
1892 | zYNE BEDROEFDE OUDERS om 11. 25 |
6. Nature. Grave enclosed by surround
of marble in four pieces which are now fall-
ing apart. At the end of the enclosure is the
pedestal of what was apparently a monument
in the shape of a vertical cross. Behind this
is a broken white marble cross, stuck in the
ground.
Condition.
above.
Inscription :—
(a) On the pedestal, in damaged
letters :—
OUR TIMES ARE IN HIS HAND |
(b) On the cross :—
tn | Lovinc | MEMORY OF | JAMES
Fair though damaged as
Mar 18, 1935.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
345
STRACHAN OSWALD! | prED 4th guLy 1893 acep
44 YEARS.
ll. Nature. Solid rectangular block, with
foot facing East, the top consisting of a hori-
sntal marble slab raised about Aft, The
sides and ends were of marble, of which part
remains on the two sides. |
Condition. Good.
Inscription. Crossed triangles _fol-
lowed underneath by
HIER RUT | DOKTOR ISIDORE sacus | |
GESTORBEN AM 28 JUNI 1912 | TIEF BETRAUVERT
VON SEINER | GATTIN UND SEINEN KINDERN | |
TRIEDE SEINER ASCHE. |
12. Nature. Horizontal flat slab in white
oral raised about one foot. Foot faces
t.
Condition. Good but inscription is
poorly cut, with some of the M’s the wrong
way round.
Inscription. There is a Hebrew in-
scription which has not yet been decyphered
followed by the following in French :—
ICI REPOSE | ISAAC LEVI ORIGINAIRE DE |
SMYRNE | ARRACHE SUBITEMENT A L’AFFECTION
| DE SES PARENTS A L’AGE DE 28 ans | LE 9 |
1 An Australian, who was in business in |
Jedda, ppeerently more or less continuously, |
from 1879 or earlier until his death. He and |
a Mr. Lowell are mentioned incidentally in a
brtwe to H. M. Consul of March 20, 1879, |
two British subjects, R. Bonnici and V.
agri, who were held up when riding into
the town by a Turkish guard
them to dismount at the gate. Oswald and
Lowell came on the scene. Oswald again
appears in the Legation archives in February
1881 and is mentioned on Sept. 10, 1881, as
agent for a ship named the “Peer of the |
Realm,” in which various animals for the
, who wished
Calcutta Zoo were embar! under the
auspices of the Consulate. Oswald was
apparently at one time connected with the
firm of Wylde, Beyts & Co. and had also |
worked in conjunction with Yussuf Kudsi,
dragoman of the British Consulate, who was
also in the shipping business, and perhaps
with certain Dutch subjects. This connexion |
had come to an end in 1884, after which he |
would appear to have been in business on his
own account for some years with the financial
backing of Messrs. Gellatly, Hankey & Co.
He signed a letter to Thos. Cook & Sons,
bay, on June 8, 1888, as “ Lloyds Agent.”
Later that year, however, Messrs. Ge’ latly,
Hankey, Sewell & Co. took over his business,
including Lloyd’s Agency, retaining his ser-
vices as manager. e apparently remained
in their employment until his death from
cholera, which played great havoc in Jedda
in 1893. He had gone on board the 8.8. Akbar
the pietious evening to stay the night, fell ,
ill about midnight and died four hours jater.
aout 1912 | priez pour LUI.
14. Nature. Portion of a white marble
slab, broken and laid loosely on top of this
es to which it need not necessarily
jong.
Condition, Fragmentary.
Inscription. Nothing left.
15. Nature. Small rough horizontal slab
of grey granite lying loosely on the grave.
Foot faces West.
Condition,
partly effaced.
Inscription :—
On top, incised space for small cross.
Below, in bold capitals, the following :—
? cujartes [two or three
letters missing] | DEBaR | 4
16. Nature. Similar to No. 15, to which
it was evidently a pair, the slab lying loosely
with the foot — in the same way.
1
Fair, but inscription
Condition. Similar to No. 15.
Inscription :—
On top, incised space for small
cross.
Below, in bold capitals,
[——? xo]vuise FLo [some letters miss-
ing] | pe sar | 1870 | R.I.P.
17. Nature. Horizontal grey marble slab,
supported close to ground on wood (? lining
of grave). Foot faces West.
Condition. Good but the slab
cracked across.
Inscription, in poorly cut lettering,
FREDERIK GERHARDUS | VAN DER ZEE
| ces, 29 DECEMBER 1886 | OVERL. 6 SEPTEM-
per 1910.
Second Row of Graves,
22. Nature. Horizontal white stone slab,
raised about 18ins. from ground. Foot faces
West.
Condition. Top surface damaged,
with leaden letters standing in relief for the
most part, but in some cases missing from
incised spaces, the shape of which shows what
they were.
Inscription :—
On top, small inlet cross.
neath,
BARTOLO HROPICH | PRIMO CAPITANO
DEL LLOID A. UNG | MoRTO qui LI 10 marzo |
1887 | DEPLORATO | DALLA DERELITTA FAMIGLIA
| Pax.
23. Nature. Large white marble slab,
supported horizontally on a solid stone slab.
Condition. Good,
is
Under-
346
Inscription :—
Dt JULIJO MAKANEC | + 31 sutrus 1891.
27. Nature. White marble slab.
faces West.
Condition. Good.
Inscription :—
On top a cross, followed by,
PIETER NICOLAAS VAN DER CHIJS® |
GEBOREN TE KOUDEKERK MEI 1855 | over-
LEDEN TE DJEDDAH 2 ocToBER 1889,
Foot
Third Row of Graves.
33. (See App. III, n. d), Nature, An
imposing but now shapeless monument, con-
sisting of a rough cubical block of stone rest-
ing on what is now a rough heap of coral and
sand with traces of an original cement
facing.
Condition.
Inscription,
Substantial but ruinous.
Nothing left.
38. Nature. An elaborate monument
the shape of a sarcophagus in grey stone.
The foot faces North. The top slab slopes on
both sides from a central ridge, the South
end of which is worked into a cross.
Condition. Good.
Inscription. On the East side,
CH, HUBER.S
2 He was in business in Jedda as a shipping
agent on his own account in 1887 and probably
earlier. In March, 1888, he contracted wit
Hasan Musa Bagdadi for the building to his
ification of the house which is now the
ritish Legation residence. He was referred
to in 1888 as the Netherlands Vice-Consul. He
would appear to have been the fore-runner in
business of the later Dutch firms, associated
with the names of Robinson and Van de Poll,
whose business has now passed to the Anglo-
Dutch concern, International Agencies Ltd.
3 An Alsatian, probably from Strasbourg,
he was one of the most distinguished explorers
of Northern Arabia. Information regarding
him may be found in various works, including
the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ article on
Arabia, rth’s ‘Penetration of Arabia’
and the preface to Huber’s own ‘ Journal d’un
voyage en Arabie 1883-84’, published in 1891,
under the auspices of the French Ministry of
Public Instruction, by the Société Asiatique
and the Société de Géographie. He would
appear to have been born in or about 1837
and to have devoted himself in 1874 to explora-
tion, specialising in Arabia. His first
explorations there in the years 1878-82 are
reco! in the Bulletin de la Société de
Géographie for 1884. He discovered the Teima
inseriptions in 1880 and acquired the Teima
stone in the course of a second journey on
which started in 1883, taking the road
from Damascus to Hail. He continued this
journey from Hail to Anaiza and thence
NOTES AND QUERIES.
in |
May 18, 1985,
On the West side,
MORT POUR LA SCIENCE | JUILLED
On the North end,
MONUMENT ELEVE | A | sa | MEMOrRE |
PAR LES SOINS DU MINISTERE | DE L’ INSTRUC.
TION PUBLIQUE—FRANCE.
At the base, mason’s mark, viz.
LASSALLE ET CROS | PAU FRANCE,
39. Nature. Two plain wooden crosses at
either end mark temporarily the grave of
Madame Matrerer, the mother of the present
French Chargé d’ Affaires, who died in Jedda
on the night of Aug. 8, 1932. This graye
faces North and South.
Fourth row of Graves,
42. Nature. Monument in the shape of
a roughly made sarcophagus of light grey
stone, with panels bearing the inscriptions,
The grave lies East and West.
Condition. Fair but much weather
beaten.
Inscriptions. These are a good deal
damaged but can be easily read as follows,
with the aid of the marks corresponding to
missing letters :—
On the South side,
IRENE CHIESA RUBELLI | NATA IN PAVIA
trata | 1846 | MORTA IN JEDDA MAR RoOS8O |
reprato [? Year, damaged, but was in fact
1881—See record ante p, 327).
On the North side,
L’ADEMPIMENTO DEL DOVERE
E DI MADRE | AMOROSISSIMA | FU
RELIGIONE | E LA SUA VITA,
On the East end,
VISSE STIMATA ED AMATA | LASCTO a SU0
FIGLIO | MODESTO MA NOBILE RETAGGIO | DI
DOMESTICHE | EB CITTADINE VIRTU.
On the West end,
LORENZO RUBELLI | DI VENEZIA | AGENTE
DEL LLOYD | IL CONSOLE AUSTRO HUNGARIA |
SUI RESTI LACRIMATI | DELLA PIA CONSORTE |
QUESTO SARCOFAGO | POSE.
| DI SPOSA
LA SUA
across Central Nejd to Mecca, it is said, and
Jedda. He made a fresh start from Jedda on
the night of July 26-27, 1884, with a servant
and two guides but was murdered by the
guides on July 29, after which his body
remained exposed for some days until it was
buried by passers-by. A foot-note to his
published Journal states that “la seule
qu’on ait imprimée sur Huber” is prefaced
to a catalogue of the sale of his library
| produced at Strasbourg in 1885 by a bookseller
named Béguin. Attempts to procure a copy
‘of this catalogue have failed.
May 18, 1935,
50. Nature. Large horizontal slab of
white marble. Foot facing West.
Condition. Goed.
Inseription ;—
sackEp | TO THE MEMORY OF | LOUIS
aurHur Lucas? | AGED 25 YEARS | ONLY sUR-
VIVING SON OF THE LATE | PHILIP LUCAS OF
MANCHESTER ENGLAND, | HE DIED NOVEMBER
20, 1876 | ON THE RED SEA | WHILST RETURN-
ing | HOME | FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA | HAV-
ING BEEN COMPELLED BY ILLNESS | TO ABANDON
Is EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF THE | SOURCES
OF THE CONGO.
This is followed by a (?) Hebrew in-
s«ription and the text in English (? the
equivalent of the Hebrew).
THE LORD IS WITH ME I WILL NOT FEAR
| THIS STONE IS PLACED BY HIS SURVIVING
SISTER.
Fifth row of Graves
6. Nature. Portion of a white marble
slab, with sides sloping somewhat from the
central ridge. About half the slab has dis-
appeared and the remainder is broken in
several pieces.
Condition. Much broken as above,
but the individual remaining pieces are in
good condition.
Inscription. What remains reads as
follows, with a slight amount of reconstruc-
tion, on the South face of the stone :—
4He is the subject of a notice in the
‘Dictionary of National Biography.’ One of a
Jewish family in Manchester, he was born
there on Sept. 22, 1851, and was educated in
London at University College School and
University College. e visited the U.S.A. in |
1872 and toured Nebraska where he shot
buffalo and puzzled Indian chiefs by feats of
legerdemain. Having gone to Egypt
reasons of health in 1873, he decided in 1875
to devote himself to African exploration and
projected an expedition to the Congo in spite
of the dissuasion of those who feared for the
weakness of his constitution. Fortified with
a Khedivial “ firman ”, he reached Khartoum
via Suakin and Berber in January, 1876. At
Lardo on the White Nile he met Gordon, who
had provided him with a steamer but who |
refused to allow him to take the risk of going |
further and advised him to make a fresh start
way of Zanzibar. He visited the Albert
Nyanza with Gordon in the first steamer
launched in it. In August, 1876, he returned
to Khartoum and, despite illness, reached
Suakin via Berber on Nov, 18. He died after
embarking at Suakin for Suez. The ‘D.N.B.’
gives further particulars of Lucas’s connexion
with the Anthropological Institute, his
interest in the Heakaremn language and the
accounts of him published after his death.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
for |
347
TO THE MEMORY OF | DAVID MIL. . .
[probably three letters, ? Ler or Lar missing]
| MASTER 8.8. SI... .. | BORN IN GLASGO....
| DIED AT JEDDAH... ... | THIS STONE... .
(SMEBO.. ss <2
69. Nature, Horizontal white marble slab
base. Foot faces East.
Condition. Good.
Inscription. CARLO DI sENIBUS | N.
ADDI I DI LUGLIO pet 1841 | IN CHIOPRIS DEL
FRIULI AUSTRIACO | CAPITANO DI LUNGO CORSO
DEL LLOYD A.U, | DOPO ANNI XXXI DI NAVIGA-
ZIONE | MORTO NELLE ACQUE DI GEDDA | IL
13 pi GruGNo per 1888 | suL pPrRoscaFo
NARENTA | DA LUI COMANDATO | FU SEPOLTO
| Qu | VITTIMA DEL DOVERE © DELL’ ARDENTE
CLIMA | LUNGI DAL PADRE E DAI FRATELLI | CHE
ALLA TERRA AFFIDANO | QUESTA MEMORIA LACRI-
MATA | SICURI DI RIVEDERLO IN DIO,
70. Nature. White marble slab with
sloping sides, mounted on a lower slab of
stone. Foot faces East. Horizontal cross at
top end of slab.
Condition. Good.
Inscription, on South side,
IN LOVING MEMORY OF | MARY CHAR-
LOTTE GIBSON TWYNAM® | 3kD DAUGHTER OF
THE LATE THOMAS HOLLOWAY TWYNAM ESQ.
R.N. | FOR MANY YEARS MASTER ATTENDANT OF
POINTE DE GALLE CEYLON | BORN AT POINTE DE
GALLE 11th octoper 1835 | prep at seppa 25th
May 1888 | ‘‘ THE MASTER IS COME AND CALLETH
FOR THEE’ st. JOHN xr 28.
on
identified, from information supplied by the
Board of Trade as a memorial to David Miller,
Master of the 8.8. Shah Najam of Bombay,
O.N. 87424, owned by Messrs, Adamjee
Purbhoy Sons, the Shah Steam Navigation
Co. of India Ltd., of Bombay. He was born
at Dumbarton and was sixty-three years of
age at the time of his death at Jedda on Jan.
18, 1907, from acute ae
6 Little can be added to the account given
of this lady on the memorial. According to
information obtained indirectly from a niece
of hers, now an aged lady resident in Ceylon,
she had wished as a young woman to enter
an Anglican sisterhood but remained at home
instead to look after her father, After his
death she travelled extensively and visited
| Palestine some time before her death. It is
| thought that she went from there to Jedda,
intending to “take lodging” there and
ee o on to visit her brother, Sir
illiam Twynam, a civil servant in Ceylon.
Neither her niece, nor a grand-niece who has
also been approached, can throw any light on
bee Scare for wishing to make a stay in
edda.
348
On North side,
“BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR
THEY SHALL SEE GOD”’ sT, MATTHEW v 8 | THIS
MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED BY HER SORROW-
ING BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
On the West end: Maltese cross; at.
the East end: 1 Hs. Mason’s mark, Gaf-
fin, Regent St., London.
78. Nature, Slender marble
ing about 9ft. high. Belon;
grave, which it faces from the head or East
end, or to No. 104, at the West end of which
it stands. The pillar is surmounted by an
ornamental top and bears on the front face
illar stand
a bust in relief with a cross above and the
inscription in modern Greek beneath.
Condition. Good, except for some
damage to the face of the bust.
Inscription,
IQANNHS A KITSOX
EZHSEN ATA@OEPTON K’EAQ EN)
EENHe XQPAc MAKPAN TH TENETEI-
PAS THS YIINQTT’ HSYXQX TOPA AN
H ZQH TOY EXBYSEN QS XBYN’ H
MEAQAIA H MNHMH TOY TAHN SEB- |
ATH @A HNAI K’AIONIA.
ATIE9ANEN EN AZEAAA THe
EMBPIOY 1902
Mason’s mark on base :—
TOMHPOS | EIOIEL
Translation :
Joun A, Krrsos.?
He lived doing good deeds and here in a
foreign country far from his native
slumbers quietly now. If his life has
out as the melody goes out his memory shall
not only be revered but eternal. e was
born at Mesolonghi in 1846. Died at Jedda
the 18th December 1902.
79. Nature. Grey granite headstone, stand-
ing vertically at the East end of No. 79,
facing West, at the foot of No. 105, to which
7 Better known locally as Yanni Kitson, he
was a well-known Greek merchant in Jedda.
He had been associated with the firm of
Liverato Freres, who are still in business at
Aden and elsewhere, but had later established
a business of his own, in which he was suc-
ceeded an employee named Nicolas
Sdoungos. The inscription on the tomb is an
interesting example of modern Greek verse in
rhyming couplets, of the kind known as
“political” metre. This information is due
to M. Lorenzato of Port Sudan and to Mr.
John Mavrogordato of Hampstead, London,
who has supplied the translation.
@.M. A@HNAI.
one
NOTES AND QUERIES.
May 18, 1995.
land |
it may possibly belong. q
Condition, Good but worn so that
| the inscription can only be read in a
| light at a certain angle, =
Inscription :—
sackeD | TO THE | MEMORY | oF |
THOMAS WILLIAMS | LATE MASTER OF THE SHIP
| WILLIAM CHANDLER | WHO DIED | ON THE
| 2nd | aprit 1871 | acep | 43 years 9-17 m |
either to this |
THIS TABLET | WAS ERECTED BY HIS | FRIENDS.
Sith Row of Graves,
104. See No. 78.
105. See No. 79
Anprew Ryan,
C.M.G., His Britannic
) Minister —Pleni
tentiary at Jedda.] ae
(To be concluded),
occasion. It bears a modern rendering of
St. George triumphing over the Dragon, and
the edge, instead of being milled, has the in-
scription, ‘‘ Decus et Tutamen. Anno Regni
| XXV."" The Latin words with th of
EPENHOH EN MEXOAOPTIQ TM 1846 | area
18 AEK- |
| Horace’s address to Maecenas at the begin-
the reign were used for crown pieces as far
back as the reign of Charles II. They recall
ning of the Odes :
O et praesidium et dulce decus meum,
but the actual three words appear in the
Aeneid, Book V, line 262. Aeneas gives as
a prize a cuirass, loricam, which is ‘ decus
et tutamen in armis.’’ The words are not
easy to translate. The more poetical trans-
lators of Aeneid render decus ‘* glory,’’ which
is, perhaps, as near as English can get;
‘‘tutamen ’’ is “‘ safeguard,”’ rather a prosy
word. “ Defence ’’ or ‘ bulwark” may be
preferred.
Vv. R.
TH E NAME SHAKESPEARE AT
BISHOP’S TACHBROOKE. — In the
Warwickshire volume of Col. Chester's tran-
scripts (see elxvi. 56) the following entries
are taken from the Registers of Bishop's
Tachbrooke.
Marriages :
1559, Nov. 19. Robert Shakespeare of this
parish and Agnes Steward of Haselie.
1592, Jan. 31. Roger son of Robert Shaxpes!
and Isabell daughter of . - - Parkins both of
this parish,
1593, March 4. Thomas Turner and Isabell
daughter of Robert Shaxpere of this parish.
May 25, 1935.
Literary and Historical
Notes.
THE EUROPEAN CEMETERY IN
JEDDA.
(See ante pp. 326, 344),
Seventh Row of Graves.
133. Nature. Horizontal white marble slab
let into coral sarcophagus, standing some 3ft.
or more above the ground. Foot faces West.
Condition. Fair.
Inscription. Crossed triangles with
Hebrew inscription of some length followed
by
JOSEPH YAFFE | MORT LE 11 aour 1896.
137. Nature. White marble slab and head-
stone, with hole at top, from which a cross
oo? to have disappeared. Foot faces
est.
Condition, Good except for dis-
appearance of cross.
Inscription. On headstone,
A | CESARE ZONCHELLO | caDUTO |
VITTIMA EROICA | DELLA SCIENZA | E DEL
DoveRE | L'AMM*X* | SANITARIA | DELL’
IMPERO OTTOMANO | MEMORE | QUESTO MARMO
| HA CONSECRATO.
On slab,
IL DOTTOR CESARE ZONCHELLO | NATO A
SEDILO (SARDEGNA) | iL 13 orrosre 1876 |
MORTO DI PESTE A GEDDAH | 11 17 aPRILE 1910 |
QUI RIPOSA.
Eighth Row of Graves.
148. Nature. Horizontal white marble
slab, lying loose on a large grave for which
it is too small,
Good.
Condition.
Inscription. Underneath a cross,
A LA MEMOIRE DU CAPITAINE | LAPADU
HARGUES® | DE LA MISSION MILITATRE | FRAN-
CAISB D'EGYPTE | MORT LE 27 NovemBRE 1918.
.8 Captain Lapadu Hargues. According to
information supplied by the French Ministry of
Pensions to the Imperial War Graves Com-
mission, in a letter dated Oct. 28, 1933, Captain
padu Hargues, Jean-Baptiste, belonged to
the 107th Infantry Regiment and was “ inscrit
sous le numéro 2996 au registre matricule de
la classe 1900 du Recrutement de Bordeaux
Gironde).” He was attached during the Great
ar to the French Military Mission in E; spt
and died in Jedda of illness contracted while
on service. His death was recorded on Oct. 2,
1919, in the registre d’Etat Civil at Bordeaux
Sa
NOTES AND QUERIES.
363
150. (See App. III. n. ¢). Nature. Black
wooden cross at West end of grave, foot of
which faces Bast.
Condition. A rudely fashioned mem-
orial. The rough painting of the Greek
inscription was too difficult to decypher.
Inscription. On cross-piece,
*EMANOYHA AQPIO3.
On vertical shaft, a roughly painted
‘inscription arranged in a scroll, not de-
cyphered.
Ossuary. '
The ossuary close to the South wall at the
end of the seventh row of graves is simply a
covered hole, without inscription.
Unattached Monument. (See App. LI. n. f.)
Lying in the unoccupied part of the
cemetery are the parts of a monument which
was discovered a couple of years ago in a
dhow in Jedda harbour and was recovered
with the assistance of the local authorities.
It consists of a stone base, two marble blocks
to form the pedestal and a marble cross, all
separate but in a good condition.
Inscription. On upper marble block,
intended to carry cross,
SACRED | TO THE MEMORY | OF | F.
RENNIE | CHIEF ENGINEER P, & 0. 8.8. VENETIA
| WHO DIED aT JEDDA JULY 41H 1895 | ace 41
YEARS.
On lower marble block,
THIS STONE HAS BEEN ERECTED BY HIS
FRIENDS IN THE P. & 0, SERVICE.
Small oddments found in the Cemetery in
February, 1934, include a fragment of soft
stone unlike other stone in the cemetery, with
the lettering mem in metal and a piece of
shell, possibly used in some bombardment,
e.g., at the time of the Saudi siege of Jedda.
Appenpix II.
Provisional List of persons not now
commemorated in the Cemetery, but known
to have died in Jedda.
N.B.—This list is based on very imperfect
information and largely on personal mem-
ory. It is probably accurate, so far as it
oes, as regards names, but the dates must
Ba accepted with great reserve, except when
the day and month are shown as well as the
year.
with the annotation “ Mort pour la France.”
His effects were handed over to his widow, then
residing at 16 Rue Neuve, Bordeaux.
364
NOTES AND QUERIES.
May 25, 1935,
Name. Date or approximate
date of death.
1. —— Evertiarp, French
Consul.
2. Mme Eveittarp, his wife.
3. StepHen Pace, Acting
British Vice-Consul. a
Nos. 1 to 3 were among the victims ot
the massacre of 1858. See the text of the
record and App. ITI. n. 6.
4. Pair Sairn, Seaman of
June 15, 1858.
S.S. Douglas, May 28, 1859.
5. Tuomas Seymour Lake,
Seaman of S.S, Ophir,
about June 15, 1859.
Nos. 4 and 5 were doubtless two of
the eleven persons mentioned by Consul
Stanley as having died in the year begin-
ning January, 1859. Their names are pre-
served in reports regarding their effects.
6. ? Lampros, Greek, 1896.
7. XENOPHON Stavrakis, Greek, 1896.
8. ALExaNDER Stavrakis, Greek, 1896.
9. Constantine Katirouitis, Greek, 1904.
10. Dr. Procyic, Austrian Consul, 1904.
11. —— Luoyp, mercantile marine
officer, brother of Captain Lloyd, Dock-
master at Bombay. Said to have been
commemorated by a monument,
12. Captain Ricwarpson, S.S.
Enema, brother of General Richardson,
who held commands at Poona and in N.
Treland.
13. —— Roserts, Second Officer of
the S.S. Shah Nazir or Shah Nawaz.
14. Marre Karaprmovu, Greek,
15. —— Paros, employed by Messrs.
Gellatly, Hankey and Co. Interred in
the Cemetery but remains afterwards
1905.
1908.
1908.
1913.
removed to Port Sudan. 1913.
16. Dr. Max, 1913.
17. Orestes Maxri, Greek, 1914.
18. Demerri Astanapis, Greek, 1914.
19. Joannes Zimeris, Greek, 1914.
20. Sprro Monocrovssos, Greek, 1914.
21. Panpet1 Krrtikos, Greek, 1916.
22. Simeon Vracutotis, Greek, 1916.
23. PHoxas Livierato, Greek, 1916.
24. Lieutenant J. E. Mercer,?
Dec. 3, 1919.
8 Lieutenant (Acting Captain from January
to September, 1919), John Edgar Mercer of the
Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force) was
attached to Headquarters, Hejaz Operations.
He left Egypt on Oct. 1, 1919, to join the
Military Mission at Jedda and arrived on Oct.
5. His death on Dec. 3, 1919, was due to a fall
from an upper floor of the Agency (now
Chancery Building) at about 3 a.m. He was
25. Dr. CHANESSIAN, Armenian, 1920,
26. SopHoctes Vourzrovar, Greek, 1928,
27. Pertctes Voutziovar, Greek, 1928,
28. Dr. Cesano, Italian Consul. Re-
mains removed to Italy Jan. 24, 1929,
29. Captain Wueeer, of the Mogul
Line, who has supplied the names at
11, 12 and 13, mentions also an un-
named Parsee engineer of the mercan-
tile marine as having been buried in
the Cemetery.
Aprenpix III. Nores.
(a). Name. The Cemetery was originally
described as the “Christian Cemetery.”’ This
became inappropriate when it was also used
for the interment of Jews. Various descrip-
tions have been adopted at different later
periods. It was decided at the Committee
meeting on Apr. 7, 1934, to adopt definitely
the name “ European Cemetery.” It was
realised that this was not strictly accurate
as a contemporary description of a cemetery
which contains the remains of various
Asiatics, and would be the natural resting-
place of any Americans, etc., who might die
in Jedda. It was considered undesirable,
however, to make the mame turn on any re-
ligious distinction, and it was felt that the
| name ‘‘ European" was justified (as a con-
| ventional description by the historical origin
| of the cemetery.
(b) The Massacre of Consuls and others
in June, 1858. In June, 1858, local feeling
in Jedda was inflamed by a dispute between
the British and the local authorities regard-
ing jurisdiction over a ship. On_ the
evening of June 15 there was a rising of Mos-
lems, which was said to have originated
among the Hadhrami community. The
rioters attacked and plundered the British
and French Consulates, killing Mr. Page,
killed instantaneously and was buried the
same afternoon. The site of this grave was
located by Major Marshall in 1921. From his
report and corrections supplied by Mr. Bullard
in 1924, it appears certain that the grave is No.
147 in the plan. It was proposed in 1921 to mark
the grave with a memorial but this proposal
was abandoned and Mercer was in due course
commemorated in the War Cemetery at Suez.
His grave and that of the French cer, Cap.
tain Lapadu-Hargues, are the only known
Allied war graves in the Cemetery of Jedda
and it is practically certain that there are no
other military igre of recent date. Mercer
left a widow, Amy Katherine Mercer, whose
address in January, 1920, was Adlington, Lau-
eashire, but who is also described as of
Taranaki, New Zealand.
May 25, 1935.
the Acting British Vice-Consul, M. Eveil-
lard, the French Consul, and the wife of the
latter. Some twenty other persons, mostly
Greeks, were also killed in a general onslaught
on the Christian community. H.M.S.
Cyclops, Captain Pullen, which was lying
off Jedda at the time of the affair, left on
June 24, taking away twenty-six persons
who had escaped, including the daughter of
the Eveillards and M. Emerat, the French
interpreter, both badly wounded. The inci-
dent had important outside repercussions,
which are on record. hey are for the most
part not relevant to the present purpose, but
it is interesting to note that when, on July
19, 1858, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe put a
uestion in the House of Lords eansling
the incident, Lord Malmesbury stated, inter
alia, that Captain Pullen “ took steps before
he left to give the murdered Consul Christian
burial,”’ a statement probably based on
erroneous information.
(c) Coptic soldiers who died in 1865. The
presence of numerous Copts in the Egyptian
Army at this period was doubtless a result
of the introduction into Egypt of the Turkish
reform scheme known as the Tanzimat and
the re-organisation of the military service
under the Khedive Said Pasha (reigned from
1854 to 1863) on a basis of national service
for all alike. (See M. Sabry, ‘ L’Empire
Egyptien sous Ismail et ]’Ingérence Anglo-
Frangaise 1863-1879.’ Paris, 1933). The cir-
cumstances in which the Egyptian forces
were employed at Jedda are related in Douin,
‘Histoire du Régne du Khédive Ismail,’
Vol. i., pp. 121-8, published in 1933). The
Turkish Government had decided in 1864 on
energetic measures to cope with the disorder
and revolt in the Hejaz, Asir and Yemen.
They organised an expedition under the direc-
tion of the Governor-General of the Hejaz
and the Grand Sherif of Mecca, and they
invoked the assistance of the Viceroy of
Egypt. He contributed a force of 3,500 men,
the first contingent of whom, numbering 554,
embarked at Suez on June 3, 1864. The
Grand Sherif was, however, keener on poli-
tical negotiation than on military operations,
and things went slowly until July, 1865
when a mobilisation at Qunfidha included
Egyptian troops which had been encamped
for a year previously at Jedda. The mili-
tary operations petered out and the Egyptian
troops employed returned to Jedda about
mid-October, 1865. They returned to Egypt
in January, 1866, without having seen any
actual fighting.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
365.
(d) The ruined base of a monument on
grave No, 33 is probably a remnant of the
memorial to the victims of the 1858 mas-
Sacre, erected at some date which cannot be
ascertained after 1866 (see the text of the
record). There is no positive evidence of
this, but the monument survived up to 1914
or shortly before, and is deseri as hav-
ing been a cross or obelisk tall enough to.
be visible from outside the cemetery. There
is no unidentified tomb with any trace of
a memorial, which could have answered this
description, whereas the ruined base of No. 33.
is sufficiently considerable to have been that
of an important monument, and the cubical
block on it may well have been the begin-
ning of a vertical shaft.
(e) When this memorial was examined in
the summer of 1933, it still bore various in-
scriptions in modern Greek, which were too
roughly painted and too tortuously arranged
to be decyphered except by someone familiar
with the language. Unfortunately the in-
scriptions had been almost completely washed
away when the cross was again examined
early in 1934. No definite information has
so far been obtained regarding the deceased,
although the memorial has the appearance
of being comparatively recent.
(f) F. Rennie. This memorial recovered
in the circumstances mentioned in the de-
scniption, presents the appearance of having
never been landed before it was found in the
harbour in 1930. It is impossible to identify
the grave for which it was intended. A
gentleman still in the employment of the
P. and O. Co. at their office in Leadenhall
Street, was actually present at Rennie’s fun-
eral. His recollection is that the party
walked about ten yards into the cemetery
from the gate and then about ten yards
further to the right. The remains were en-
closed in a rough box, made by the ship's
carpenter, with the name painted on it in
black. A small wooden cross was put up to
mark the grave, but of this no trace remains.
It is plausible to suppose that the grave was
close to that of J. S. Oswald, No. 6, as they
died on the same day; and this would agree
generally with the recollection of the inform-
ant in the P. and O. offices except that the
distance walked by the party, for which he
obviously cannot vouch after so great a lapse
of time, would be greater.
Anprew Ryan.
K.B.E., C.M.G., His Britannic
Majesty’s i
tentiary at Jedda.]
62 NOTES AND QUERIES.
14 Feb., 1764, which so nearly resulted in
the fall of the Ministry—and the a naga
would have been recognised, rather than made,
at a subsequent performance of the ‘ Beggar's
Opera.’ If Walpole was not present at the
performance he might easily have confused
even the names of the theatres. Considered
beside the evidence of Churchill’s poems, some
such explanation would seem to be the only
satisfactory one.
Although another instance of Walpole's
unreliability is here presented, lovers of Gray
may have the satisfaction of thinking that
his verses on Lord Sandwich contain one of
the earliest uses of the nickname and were
pethaps rather the cause than the result of
“Jemmy Twitcher’s’’ enduring notoriety.
Cuantes Carty WaLcurt.
Department of English University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
THE EUROPEAN CEMETERY IN
JEDDA.
Supplement to Sir Andrew Ryan's Account
of the European Cemetery in Jedda.
(See clxviii. 326, 332, 344, 363, 389).
(See first
1. Original Site of Cemetery.
paragraph clxviii. ).
M. Adriaanse, the Netherlands Chargé
d’Affaires, has drawn attention to a plan
of Jedda, published in at least one of the
larger editions of C, Niebuhr’s travels in
Arabia, viz., ‘ Reize Naar Arabie en Andere
om Liggende Landen,’ published by 8. J.
Baalde, Amsterdam, and J. van Schoon-
hoven and Co., Utrecht, in 1776. The plan
faces p. 267 in Vol. i. It shows inter alia
15 This supposition is corroborated by the fact
that another Cambridge man, with precisely
the same opinion of Sandwich, wrote to the
paper at about the same time in words that
make it clear he was unaware of the new nick-
name :
“To Alma Mater Cantabrigiensis
My dear and honoured Mother,
f you who used to expel your wanton young
sons, for playing pranks at Barnwell, should
begin, so far to doat in your old age, as to turn
Harradan, Bawd, or Procuress to vice and
debauchery, I tell vou peas I shall be
ashamed to call you Mother by wearing one
of your hoods. ..
Your Dutiful Son.”
In the London Chronicle, xv (March 17-20,
1764), 271. Such a reference to Sandwich’s
profligacy would surely have been accompanied
by some mention of “ Jemmy Twitcher ” if the
writer had heard of the nickname.
a Christian Cemetery outside the town wall
to the South, i.e., in a position near, if not
the same as, that of the existing cemetery,
Although no trace remains, this carries t
history back to 1762, the year in _ which
Niebuhr visited Jedda, and suggests that the
site south of the town was traditional. The
plan is of wider interest as showing the lay.
out of Jedda and its surroundings in the cig
teenth century, e.g., it shows that the ruin
opposite the British Minister’s present resi-
dence, now used as a central prison, was for-
merly the Pasha’s house, and it marks the
ad for ships coming from Suez and
India.
2. Grave No, 38, Charles Huber (see ibid.,
p. 346, No. 38).
Further particulars are now available re-
garding Charles Auguste Huber, whose grave
is the most historically interesting monument
in the cemetery, apart from No. 33, sur-
mounted by the probable remains of the monu-
ment to the victims of the 1858 massacre.
These particulars are due to the courtesy of
H.B.M. Consul-General at Strasbourg and
the Director of Municipal Archives there,
who has supplied a copy of the notice printed
in the Sale Catalogue of Huber’s books (see
footnote 3, p. 346) and various extracts from
local records. These papers are preserved in
the British Legation, Jedda. The following
is a summary of the main facts:
Huber was born in Strasbourg on Dec, 19,
1847, not in or about 1837, as previously
stated. His parents were Georges Huber, a
‘cordonnier,” and Elizabeth Stapfer. The
father belonged by origin to wll
Baden. Charles Auguste is described vari-
ously in his early days as a “‘ commis negoci-
ant ” and ‘‘ clere d’huissier, puis comptable.”
He was disqualified for miktary service by
atrophy of the “‘ membre superieur gauche.”
He was poor and suffered many vicissitudes,
but was so ardent a bibliophile as to deprive
himself of necessaries to buy books. The
notice in the sale catalogue gives 1879 as the
year in which he undertook his first journey
of exploration, after two sojourns in Algeria
and some preliminary study in Paris. The
papers obtained from Strasbourg include also
a copy of an article in the Journal d’ Alsace
et Courier du Bas Rhin of July 8, 1885,
consisting mainly of an account in the Temps
of a meeting of the Académie des Inscrip-
tions de Paris, at which the French Vice-
Consul in Jedda, De Lostalot, made a state-
ment regarding Huber, with special refer-
ence to the discovery and subsequent adven-
Jury 24, 1937,
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63
tures of the Teima Stone. It is there stated
that the Algerian Shaikh, Si Aziz ibn Sheykh
al Haddad, who recovered the stone after
Huber’s death, recovered also his remains,
consisting of the whole skeleton, except the
hands, which had disappeared. The skull
had been perforated by a bullet near the left
temple. The remains were buried at Jedda.
In his book, ‘ Christians at Mecca’ (Heine-
mann, 1909), Augustus Ralli states (p. 243)
that the skull was buried at Jedda but the
rest of the remains, except the hands, which
as a Moslem and by no will of his own. He
records difficulties owing to his being a ‘‘ Nas-
rani’’ on entering the valley of El-Sel, pre-
sumably As-Seyl, and going on to Zeyma,
where no one would act as his ‘‘ Rafiq’’ to
Jedda ‘“‘de crainte de Dieu,’ and to
El-Sariah, presumably Shariyya, where he
arrived on the morning of June 17, 1884.
Being unwilling to go to Taif to see the
Sharif, and wishing to proceed to Jedda, he
left some of his party that afternoon. His
note goes on:
Cuartes Huser’s Grave.
were never recovered, were taken away by
Snouck Hungronje when he left Jedda; no
evidence has been found which would support
this story.
One of the most interesting points con-
nected with Huber is whether he in fact
visited Mecca, as stated in more than one
‘count, notably in the notice in the sale cata-
+e ... “‘Enfin il retourna & Hail et par
eiber, en touchant & la Mecque, au port de
Djeddah.”’ The light thrown on this by
Huber’s Journal, published in 1891, is very
curious, as he would appear to have passed
through the forbidden area and perhaps
through the city, without in any way posing
A 6 heures arrété par 8, puis ll, puis 13
hommes, espéce de garde urbain, et qui nous
prennent pour des voleurs qui veulent éviter
de _— par la Mecque. Je refuse de camper
et de laisser voir ma figure. On va done nous
conduire aux autorités de la Mecque. 11.30.
Arrivé & la porte Ria El-Samy de la Mecque et
campé,
He sent two men to notify the authorities,
but the hour was too late, so next morning
he sent a pencilled message asking for an
escort to Jedda. The messenger returned with
a man carrying forage for the camels. They
were followed by a Turkish soldier in white,
‘que je vois faire faction prés de mes effets
64
‘et qui repousse les curieux qui commencent &
arriver de la ville pour voir le Nagrany.”
Later came a Sharif to greet Huber and take
him to Mecca and later another Sharif. One
of Huber’s men “n’en revient pas de tous
les hommes qu’ il me voit accorder."" He
started again at 7.16 p.m., and a little later
“‘atteint les premiéres maisons de la Mecque
qui reste & ma gauche. . . A 8 heures plus
avant en ville et j’ai la maison de M'd Said
Pacha & ma gauche.” Darkness then fell and
he travelled all night by what from his de-
scription seems to have been the main road
from Mecca to Jedda. He reached Jedda
early on the morning of June 19.
Attached to these notes will be found one
of two photographs of Huber's grave, taken
by Mr, Oppenheim early in 1936. These also
give a general impression of the present
appearance of the cemetery.
3. Netherlands Subjects buried in the
Cemetery.
In 1935 M. Adriaanse went through the
registers in the Netherlands Legation, which
go back to 1873. These relate to four per-
sons, of whom three appear in the earlier
record. These are:
P. N. Van Der Chijs. Grave No, 27, Ap-
pendix III, Note E. Was already in Jedda
before 1886, in which year he signed the
register on January 1st, as acting consul.
Hendrik Van Der Houven Van Oordt.
Grave No, 4. Died in the Netherlands Con-
sulate, as ‘‘ vice-consul with the personal title
of consul.”
F. G. Van Der Zee.
additional particulars.
The fourth name
Adriaanse is that of
Maria Elisabeth Bbell, infant daughter of
Carel Wilhelm Ebell, book-keeper to Messrs.
Van de Poll and Co., and Maria Emmer. She
died on Oct. 13, 1920, at the age of ten months
and was buried in the European Cemetery.
Her grave has not been located but is pro-
bably in the seventh row.
This is the only addition that has been
made so far to the list of names in Appendix
II to the original account.
R. W. Buttarp,
[K.C.M.G., C.LE.,
His Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at
Jedda, Saudi Arabia.)
Grave No, 17. No
discovered by M.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Jury 24, 1997,
A THIRD THOUSAND NOTES ON
‘N.E.D.’ (Mill).
(See clxxiii, 21),
Race: offspring, is not given of an indi-
vidual. Chapman, Il. iv. 329, “ so lay,
Jove-bred Ajax’ hand, Anthemion’s forw
race’ (‘Avdeuidnv). Cp, ‘‘ Tydeus’ mighty
race,” Diomede, v. 314.
Rack (vb3, § 3e) is used of the windlass of
a crossbow in Fletcher, ‘ Love's Pilgrimage,’
Il, ii., “* 1 feel the old man’s mastered
much passion, And too high-racked, whi
makes him overshoot all His valour should
direct at.’’
Radiance (fig.) 1751. Earlier—Chapman,
‘Hymn to Christ,’ ‘‘ Would pomp and radi-
ance rather not outbrave Thy naked truth,
than clothe or countenance it with grace,”
where it is glossed ‘‘ outward glory.”
Radiograph (rbd No fig. sense is given.
J, L, Garvin, the Observer, Apr. 6, 1924, sa
ved Byron, ‘‘ he has been radiographed to the
me.’
Rajted—not given. Hardy, ‘ Coll, Poems’
(1928), 377, ‘‘my rafted spirit would not
rest,’’ if another possessed my Love. On
p. 64 it is explained “ roused.”
Rain: wet with rain. One example is
given dated c. 1440. Tennyson in ‘ Love thou
thy Land,’ uses this sense figuratively, ‘‘ And
this be true, till Time shall close, That Prin-
ciples are rain’d in blood,”
amming. Fletcher, ‘ Love’s Cure,’ V. iii.,
“my pistol is no ordinary pistol: it has two
ramming bullets.’ ‘N.E.D.’ gives “ very
big ’’ as a late use in dialect.
amverse: upset. Later—Lithgow, ‘ The
Gushing Teares’ (1863) 192, ‘‘ they quite for-
got the substance of base slime, Til rotten age
ramverse their masked toyes.”’
Raphael blve—not given. Lytton, ‘ The
Caxtons,’ xviii., ch. 7, “ a [boy’s] jacket of
Raphael blue.”’
‘atch. The only literary (and literal)
example of the meaning “ stretch ’’ is from
Skelton, the other references being to glo
saries. It is rather bold of Hardy, ‘The
Dynasts,’ 20, to give it to Pitt in a House
of Commons speech, unless he had authority:
“the thousands called . . . will ratch
rem English regiments . . . to glorious
length.””
te: be worth — not given. ‘ Ant, and
Cleop.,’ III. ii. 69, ‘ Fall not a tear, I say
one of them rates All that is won and lost.
Rate: ratification—not given. Chapman,
118. XI. Fes. 6, 1915.)
NOTES AND QUERIES,
101
LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915
CONTENTS.—No. 267.
NOTES :—English Records in Aleppo, 101—Bibliography
of Histories of Irish Counties and Towns, 103—Old
Medical Books: their Value to Genealogists — Arch-
bishop Buncroft’s Birthplace, 101 House of Normandy
—Smoking in the Army, 105—“ Tundish "Funnel —
potest among Baronets—Parker Family of Gloucester-
shire—Dickensiana—Huguenot Marriage Customs, 108.
JUERIES :—“' Starvation "—Kighteenth-Century Polit
Ballads—The Order of Merit—‘ Guide to Irish Fictio
107—Elbée Family — Heraldic: Foreign Arms— Author
ical Information Wanted — Harrison
=Green — “Scots” = Scotch” — Source of Quotation
‘Wanted, 103—Clerical Directories—Alleged Survival of
Ancient’ Pelasgic — Elizabeth Cobbold’s Descent from
Edmund Waller— Reference Wanted—‘Conturbabantur
Constantinopolitani’—Antonio Vieira—Col. John Rutter
‘Wastrel "=Waste Land, 109—Packet-Boat Charges—
Ropers news": “Duck's news” — Grange, Family —
Ichabod as an Explanation—Old Etonians, 110.
REPLIES:—‘The Theatre of the World,’ 110—Luke
Robinson, M.P.—‘ Jacob_Larwood,” 111—Rev. Lewis
Way—Thomas Bradbury, Lord Mayor, 112—Our National
Anthem, 118 — Words of Poem Wanted — “ Gazing-
coom”—Source of Quotation Wanted—Starlings taught
to Speak, 114—Names on Coffins—Marsack—Edward
Gibbon Wakefield—“ Wangle"—Apollo of the Doors,
115—Lord: Use of the Title—English Prisoners in
France—Tailor’s Hell—Adjectives from French Place-
Names—Cardinal Ippolito dei Medici, 116—Onions and
Deafness, 117—Andertons of Lostock and Horwich, 113.
NOTES ON BOOKS:—‘ Materials for the History of
Wellington in the County of Somerset '—‘Calendar of
State Papers, Foreign Series, 1583-4’—‘ Old Roads and
Early Abbeys'—‘ Nineteenth Century ’—‘ Cornhill.”
Notices to Correspondents.
Motes.
ENGLISH RECORDS IN ALEPPO.
Tue old European cemeteries of Aleppo are
situated on an eminence to the north-east
of the town, outside the inhabited area, and
the Protestant section is entered through
a large arched gateway, over which is a
tablet* enclosing the following inscription :—
A.D. 1584
PROTESTANT CEMETERY.
The Protestant and other Christian ceme-
teries are together, and enclosed by walls ;
but although they are supposed to be pro-
tected from profanation, and a guardian
lives in a small house within the precincts
for this purpose, the more ancient and inter-
esting memorials have suffered very much.
‘The greater number of the old English
tombstones of the seventeenth and eighteenth
* There is no indication as to when this tablet
‘was put up.
centuries have evidently disappeared. Some
years ago a number of these curious long
stones were removed from the cemetery to
build a new tank and aqueduct for a garden
near by. Who can say how many old
English records disappeared in this opera-
tion ?
The tombstones in all the Aleppine
cemeteries are in the form of squared stone
blocks about 6 ft. by 2 ft. by 2 ft., hollowed
out from underneath, and looking at first
sight like ancient sarcophagi turned upside
down. The hollowing-out has evidently
been done to make these enormous stones
more portable. The stones are in shape
quite unlike the contemporary monuments
at Alexandretta and Larnaca, and the
style of ornamentation is very different.
Most of the inscriptions are illegible, owing
to the poor quality of the stone. The follow-
ing inscriptions on the few surviving monu-
ments are given with the original mis-
spellings, &c. :—
Hic iacet | Rever
Chaffield | Presb .. Minister qvondam An;
nationis | in Aleppo qvi cvm xl pivs .. vs
annos .... | inacerbi co .... ratvs est et circo
Ixxx annos |natvs mortem’ obit xxvi Febr.
MDCLXXXV.
modvm vir Bartholomi
Exvvias depositi hic | Gvilelmvs Bethel Can-
cellarivs Angl. nationis | pietate ac morvm
candore nec non litterarvm |stvdio .... nis
mvliere svo benedictvs victvs est. x.
sva xxxvi. sal. | hvmana MDCLXXIX [or MDCLXXxIx],
Hic reqviescat
mereatoris Angli
uae XX.
pelle (?) |die xviii
in the Aleppo documents at the Public Record
Office, London, is a notice of the sale by auction,
on 8 June, 1749, of the house of the late Mr.
Nathaniel Harley, situated in the “Great Cane.”
Petrus Shaw armiger honorabili Iohannis
Shaw |de Eltham in comitatu Cantii Baronetti
filius | natu minimus qui ex Anglia pro.... us
in Aleppo | per annos prope 30. | Mercaturum
laudate honestate que ex |summa quore
benevolentia morum suavitate | aestimationem
omnium quibuscum ibidem |decelatura. Sed
podagra variisque morbis satis | vehementi
d.... conflitatur. | Animam efflavit | 14 Tan.
An. Dom. 1793. | 2st. 49. | Amicorum ut nuper
deliciae.
Sir Charles Shaw, writing from Little Hawk-
well, Pembury, Kent, 14 Dec., 1912, says :-—
“The Shaw buried at Aleppo must be Peter
Shaw, youngest son.of the second Baronet, by
his second wife. His brother Paggen Shaw was
a merchant at Smyrna. Peter Shaw is the little
boy with a bird at the end of a string in the very
102
NOTES AND QUERIES.
(118. XL Fes. 6, 1915.
big picture that was at the end of the Morning
Room at Kenward, and which formerly hung in
the great hall at Cheshunt. There was a picture
of Peter Shaw in Turkish dress, squatting cross-
legged, with a cup of coffee in his hand, at Ches-
hunt.”
There is nothing to indicate a connexion
between this Peter Shaw and the Jasper Shaw,
merchant of Aleppo, whose name is mentioned in
several of the Aleppo papers of about 1780, and
whose marriage with a Greek woman in 1778 was
attested by a certain Henry Shaw. | See P.R.O.,
.E 70. Mr. Henry Shaw was apparently
Vi ice~ ~Cocisal at Latachia
Vbi Devs ibi patria
Here lie interred the bones of three children | of
the worshipful Iohn Purnell Esq. and Angela
his wife. The said Iohn Purnell being Consul
in the city of Aleppo, Syria, Palestine, for His
Majesty the King of Great Britain, &c. and the
High and Mighty Lords the States General of
the | Vnited Provinces of Holland, &.......
iption seems to be an
illness, but it is very
The date appears to be 1719.
illegible.
Here lies interred the body of Francis Taylor.
He was born Septem’ the xxix an. Dom. MDCLXIX.
| in the Parish of Abbe-Holm in the County of
Cc ‘umberland.
He dyed Novemb' the xxi an. Dom.
He was Chiaux to the B:
To the memory of Mi(stress E)lizabeth Usgate
who died September 20. 1758. | This tomb was
erected by Rich Usgate. |....+ deve
Here lies interred the body of | Ioseph Hopkins,
Nephew of David Hays Esq, | British Merchant
in Aleppo. | This virtuous youth, modest in his
behaviour | admired for his learning and beloved
for | his piety, was cropt as a flower near | full
bloom, to the merited regret of his affectionate
Uncle’ by a violent fever |the xxviii of Jvly
MDCCLXIX. aged xviii years.
Charles Robert Thompson Esquire | of White-
haven in England. | Died at Aleppo on the 20th
of December 1835.
Here are deposed the mortal remains of | Nath.
Will. Werry Esq. ... +.
Three more lines illegible, and the date, which
was 1841, Mr. Werry was the Consul of that
period.
Sacred to the memory of Rha Tou Skene |
davghter of Jacobvs Rhizos Rhangabe | the
devoted and beloved wife of Henry Skene Esquire.
| British Consul at Aleppo. | She died at the age
of fifty four on the 16th day of May. 1870. |
Universally esteemed for her amiable and bene-
volent character.
To the memory of George Smith. Assistant
in the Department of Oriental Antiquities
British Museun Distinguished for his | know-
ledge of the ancient languages and | history of
Babylonia and Assyria. | Born 20, March 1840.
Died at Aleppo while |on a scientific mi
19 August. 1876, | This slab has been placed by the
a
Trustees | of the British Museum in recognition of
his merit and great service in the | promotion
of Biblical learning.
The slab has been broken in transport from
England, and the two parts are set up side by side
in the boundary wall of the cemetery.*
A tomb on which the name “ Brewer” is
distinguishable is too much defaced to allow of
any transcription. The date has quite dis-
appeared. Written in English.
Robert Condit Son of | Rev. W. W. and H. M.
Eddy | Born Feb 1. 1853. Died July 7. 1853.
A register book of births, deaths, and
marriages, formerly in the Aleppo Consulate,
is now preserved at the Public Record Office,
London. Several of the entries in it are
curious; it appears to have been started by
the Chaplain, the Rev. Thos. Dawes, on his.
appointment in 1758. The deaths are as.
follows :—
1758. July 19.—Mistress Booth, wife of Thomas
Booth, merchant, “Both of them of
the Anabaptists.””
1758. Sept. 25.—Mistress Elizabeth Usgate.
“An English lady.”
1758. Sept. 23.—Rev. Mr. Charles Holloway.t
1758. Oct. 30.—Francis Browne, Esq., * Consul
at’ Aleppo.”
1760. Jan. 10.—Anna Sophia Vernon.
1762. Mar. 3.—Mr. Richard Newton, “ died of
an srysipelas.”
ct.
1762. 31.—Mr. Francis Hughes.
1764. Feb. 6.—Mistress Elizabeth Edwards.
1769. July 29.—Mr. Joseph Hopkins, “ nephe.
of Mr. David Hays.”
1775. Aug. 11.—Mary, infant daughter of Jasper
and Eleanor Shaw.
1776. Jan. 26.—Ann Edwards.
1776. Dec. 22.—John Abbott,
Consul.”
1781. May 28.—Francesca Nicolette Edwards.
1781. Aug. 6.—Harriet Hays.
Under the date 1770 is the entry “ Rev.
Robert Foster came to Aleppo 29 May,”
after which occur records of persons abjuring
the Roman Catholic’ faith, and embracing
the ‘‘ Religione Anglicana,” as it is called
in one or two cases.
1776. Jan. 25.—Moses Ishah, an_ Italian Jew,
received into the English Church in the
presence of the greater part of the English
Factory, by the name of Eleazar, being 26
years of age.
1779. “June 9-—-Mr. John Hussey, Chaplain,
came to Aleppo.
1782. June 10.—Mr. John Hussey departed.
* Hamilton Lang in his book ‘ Cyprus’ (London,
1878, p. 334) states that George Brith was the
discoverer of the ancient Cypriot syllabic mode of
writing.
+ ‘‘ As there was no Protestant Clergyman at
this time in Aleppo, the Funeral Service was read
over the graves of the three above-mentioned
persons by the British Cancellier, Mr. Jno.
Brand Kirkhouse.”
“son of the
an 2
EEE ——
118. XI. Fes. 6, 1915.)
NOTES AND QUERIES. 108
In the same register book is a page
devoted to the marriage certificate of Mr.
John Boddington, who for a short period
acted as Consul in Cyprus :—
1759. Aug. 10th. performed the marriage cere-
mony according to the Church of England between
Mr. John Boddington, Consul for his Brittanic
Majesty at Cyprus, and Maria Francoise Rhym-
baud of French extraction, in the Le house
at Cyprus in the presence of William Kinloch,
Fsq., Consul of Aleppo, Mr. John Abbott, Mr.
Edwin Sandys, Mr. James Willy, and Mr. Macleod,
‘As witness my hand
THo. DAwEs.
Chaplain of the British Factory in Aleppo.
Gro. Jerrery, F.S.A.,
Curator Ancient Monuments.
Nicosia, Cyprus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF
IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
Part I. A—B.
To the historian a list of histories of the
towns and counties of Ireland will prove
useful. In a few instances I have gone
outside the chosen limits, and included
books which only trench on this interesting
and instructive field of Anglo-Irish literature.
May I ask the aid of readers for further
data ?
ACHONRY.
Notes on the Early History of the Dioceses of
‘Tuam, Killala, and Achonry, by H. T. Knox,
with map, 1904.
ANTRIM,
Account of Antrim, by Dobbs, 1683.
Letters on the Northern Coast of Antrim: its
Antiquities, Customs, Manners, and Natural
History, by the Rev. Wm. Hamilton, post 8vo,
Belfast, 1786.
Statistical Survey of Co. Antrim, Natural History,
Round Towers, Antiquities, &c., with Observa-
ticns on the Means of Improvement, by Rev.
John Dubourdieu, many large folding plates,
2 vols., 8vo, boards, Dublin Society, 1812.
History of Antrim, 1822.
Coal Districts of the Counties of Tyrone and
Antrim, by Richard Griffiths, coloured plates,
8vo, cloth, 1829,
History of Antrim, by Kempton, 1861. :
Outlines of the Rocks of Antrim, by David Smith,
illustrated, crown 8vo, cloth, Belfast, 1868.
Antrim and Down, by Craik, London, 1887.
ARMAGH.
Dialogue, by Barton, Dublin, 1751.
Lough Neagh: Lectures on the Petrification,
Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of Lough
Neagh, and the Natural History of the Con-
tiguous Counties, by Richard Barton, folding
plates and maps, 4to, calf, Dublin, 1751.
Statistical Survey of Co. Armagh, with Observa-
tions on the Means of Improvement, by Sir
Charles Coote, Bart., 2 maps, 8vo, boards,
Dublin Society, 1804.
Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh for
1,373 Years, by James Stuart, with illustra
tions, 8vo, boards, Newry, 1819.
New edition, revised and largely rewritten,
by the Rev. Ambrose Coleman, small to, cloth
100.
Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and
Dromore, Taxation of these Dioceses, compiled
in 1806, by Bishop Reeves, 4to, 1847.
Ancient Churches, Armagh, by Bishop Reeves,
Record of the City of Armagh from Farliest
Period, by Edward Rogers, plates, small 4to,
cloth, 1861.
History of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, by
Rev. John Gallogly, crown 8vo, cloth, Dublin,
Memoir of Armagh Cathedral, with an Account
of the Ancient City, by Edward Rogers, crown
8vo, cloth, 1881.
Architect's Report of St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
Armagh, by Rev. John Gallogly, crown 8vo,
sewed, 1886.
Avoca.
Avoca and its Vale, by Rev. P. Dempsey, Dublin,
1913.
BALLINTUBBER.
Ballintubber Castle, by Dr. R. P. McDonnell, Ros-
common, 1913
BALLYCALLAN.
Notes on the Antiquities of the United Parishes
of Ballycallan, Kilmanagh, and Killaloe, by
Rey. J. Holohan, 8vo, covers, 1875.
BALLYSHANNON.
Ballyshannon: its History and Antiquities, by
Hugh Allingham, crown 8vo, cloth, London-
derry, 1879.
BALLYSODARE.
History of Ballysodare, by O’Rorke, Dublin, 1878.
BALROTHERY.
History of Balrothery, by H. A. Hamilton and
R. Scriven, Dublin, 1876.
Banpon.
The History of Bandon and the Faneipal Towns
in the West Riding of County Cork, by George
Bennett, portrait and plate, 8vo, cloth, Cork,
d BELFAST.
Belfast : Historical Collections relative to the
Town of Belfast, from the Earliest Period to
be Union, frontispiece, 8vo, half calf, Belfast,
817.
History of Belfast, by Mackay, Belfast, 1823.
History of Belfast, by Benn, Belfast, 1877.
The Town Book of the Corporation of Belfast,
1613-1816, edited from the original by R. M.
Young, Chronological List of Events, and
Notes, Maps, and Illustrations, Belfast, 1892.
Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its Vicinity,
edited by R..M. Young, with maps and illus-
trations, royal 8vo, cloth, Belfast, 1896.
History of Belfast, by MacComb, Belfast.
= BENBuRB.
The Battle of Benburb, by Henry O'Tuohill, 4to,.
24 pp., privately printed, 1911.
Boye.
Annals of Boyle, by Dalton, 1845.
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps:
Corps News November 1945 page 17.
Part of the Internet Archive digital file for
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps,
Volumes 84-85 1945
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October 16.—Maj. J. E. M. Boyd (5239) ret. pay,
R.A.M.C., is restored to the rank.of Lt.-Col., 16th
Aug. 1945, on ceasing to be employed, and is granted
she hon. rank of Col.
Octobey 23.—Col. (temp. Maj.-Gen.) J. C. A.
Dowse, C.B.E., M.C., M.B. (8626), late R.A.M.C.,
on ‘completion. of four years in the rank, is retained
on the active list (supern.), 21st Oct. 1945.
Lt.-Col. F. McKibbin, 0.B.E., M.B, (8445),
from R.A.M.C., to be Col., 21st Oct. 1945, with
seniority 8th Dec. 1943. :
October 26.—Maj.-Gen. Sir Percy S. Tomlinson,
K.B.E., C.B., D.S.0., F.R.C.P., ret. pay, is apptd.
Col.-Comdt., 27th Aug. 1945, vice Maj.-Gen. J. W.
West, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., LL.D., M.B., M.Ch.,
ret. pay, who has attained the age limit for the
appt. i
Lt.-Col. E. L. F, Nash, M.C., M.B. (8724),
WF *
retires on account of disability, 25th Oct. 1945,
retaining the rank of Lt.-Col.
October 30.—Maj.-Gen. A.. G. Biggam, C.B.,
O.B.E., M.D., F-.R.C.P.,. K.H.P. (14900) late
R.A.M.C., is retained on the active list supern.,
29th Oct. 1945.
Col. H. B. F. Dixon, M.C., M.D., F.R.GP.
(10659), late R.A.M.C., on completion of four years
in the rank, is retained on the active list supern.,
29th Oct. 1945.
War Subs. Capt. Robert Sherrard McClelland,
M.B. (236343) from R.A.M.C. (Emerg. Comm.) is
granted a short service comm., in the rank of Lt.,
11th July 1942, and to be Capt., 11th July 1943,
with seniority next below Capt. J. D. McDorey.
Maj. W. Duguid, M.B. (38758), relinquishes his °
commn., 27th Aug. 1945, and is granted the hon.
rank of Maj.
REGULAR ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
Octobey 12.—Col. A. D. Stirling, D.S.O., M.B.
(4623), late R.A.M.C., reverts to ret. pay, 11th
Jurie 1945, on ceasing to be employed, and is granted
the hon. rank of Brig.
THE ‘ARMY: DENTAL CORPS.
October 26.—Maj. S. A. Rodda (27139) reverts to
ret. pay on ceasing to be employed on account of
disability, 25th Oct. 1945, and is restored to the
rank of Lt.-Col.
Following a notice in our September issue on
the award of decorations to the sons of certain
officers late R.A.M.C., we have received news of
the following awards made’ to Major W. G. F.
Jackson, R.E. the son of Colonel A. Jackson.
AWARDS.
Major Jackson {vas awarded the Military Cross
for work in the Norwegian campaign, and earned a
bar to his M.C. at Casino. He was also Mentioned
in despatches for work in Italy.
NORMAN VEITCH LOTHIAN
M.B., B.SC., D.P.M., D.P.H., D.T.M.&H.
Five times mentioned in despatches, Brevet
Major, M.C., French War Cross, 1914 Star and |
Clasp. B.W,M. and V.M.
As a result of a motor accident on a road in the
hills to the East of Beyrout in Syria, close to Beit
Amara, there died, in' 1925, that very gallant
gentleman, Norman Lothian. :
Many friends may be glad to see this photograph
of his memorial, on the site of the tragedy, taken
by Brigadier John Sinton in 1944.
Lothian after an outstanding career in the
R.A.M.C., became Secretary. to the Medical Direc-
torate of the League of Nations. It was while on
an inspection of the malaria problems in Syria and
Palestine that the fatal accident occurred. Realizing
all too well that he had an internal hemorrhage he
refused all aid saying “‘ You can do nothing for me
—look after the ones you can help,” and so died
one of the keenest intelligences we ever had in our
Corps. A man of unusual charming and modest,
personality, who entered with zest into all sides of
life, he still lives in the memory of those who were
. Privileged to know him.
Erratum. — te
Corps News, October, 1945, page 13—
, With the exception of Majors E. F. Baines, F. S. Mitchell-Heggs and R. W. Nevin, the
names shown under TERRITORIAL ARMY are Regular Army Officers.
11S. XII. Ave. 7, 1915.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
93
LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST ?, 1915.
CONTENTS.—No. 293.
s lexandretta (Scanderoon), 93-—Bombay Gentle-
men of 1 Williamses of Boston, Mass. , 94—Theological
Disputations by Signs, 96—Hell-Fire Clubs, 97—Folk-lore
in Excelsis—‘‘ King of Hungary's peace” in Shakespeare,
98—Pendrell Pensions— Of that ilk,” 99.
QUERIES :—Nell Gwyn — Parthenon Club— Naval and
Military Allegiance in Germany, 9 -Sonnet_by Words-
worth—Fitzjames—Bevis Marks Synagogue—Child’s Bank
—Biographical Particulars Wanted —Wood’s Pamphlet in
‘Answer to Lord Bolingbroke—Sophie Cornelys—‘‘To go to
the lantern,” 100—Author and Poem Wanted —Biographical
Information Wanted—Date of Comet—Scotch Court of
Session—Bradley Family—St. Thomas Cantilupe—Virtues
of Onions—John Walker, D.D., 101—‘‘ Mr. Hanwell,”
Artist—American Underground Railway, 102.
REPLIES :—Mechanics’ Institutes. 102—Napoleon and the
Bellerophon—‘ Tobaceo-Stoppers "—Peat Family—Agnes,
Daughter of Louis VII.—John Trasler, 105— Birth of
Edward VI.—Map of London-Holyhead Road—Cannel
Coal, 106—Judgment of Solomon—Lient. J. Deschamps—
‘The Scourge’ — Hose — Waterloo, 107 — Dr. Luzz«to —
Faults of Index.making —Shakespeare and Blackfriars
Theatre — Translator Wanted — Easter Offerings, 103—
Rouget de Lisle — Dido's Purchase of Land — Authors
Wanted—Anstruther. 109—Buckhorse, the Prizefighter—
Burlesque Sermon—Heraldic Queries—Piccadilly Terrace
—Clerks in Holy Orders as Combatants—St. Andrew—
Betts, 110.
NOTES ON BOOKS: - Henry Tubbe—Reviews and
Magazines.
‘NOTE:
Potes.
ALEXANDRETTA (SCANDEROON).
Tre present town and roadstead of Alex-
andretta owe their importance to the com-
merce of the sixteenth and subsequent
centuries. In the Middle Ages the principal
ports in this angle of the Mediterranean were
at a place called Portella, on the opposite
side of the bay, and at Lajazzo, where was
famous castle guarding the communications
between the medieval kingdoms of Cyprus
and Armenia.
A native village with its squalid bazaar,
and near by a number of old houses built
for a semi-European colony of former day:
constitute Alexandretta. Nothing resem-
bling a harbour has ever existed, although
the land-locked bay is subject to violent
storms; a dilapidated jetty continues to
serve for landing goods and passengers, as
in the most primitive times.
Within the churchyard of the Orthodox
church of Mariakoudi stand a few carved
tombstones of English Consuls of the Levant
Company. They are of the same very
interesting character as the contemporary
examples at Larnaca; in fact, they are so
similar that they might have been produced
by the same artists.
The Orthodox church of Alexandretta
has been rebuilt within the last few years,
in the modern taste, and these tombstones
of the English have all been shifted to
one side of the enclosure, in the fashion of
many an old churchyard in England. It is
perhaps remarkable that they have escaped
total destruction.
EncusH Mercuants’ EpirapHs REMAINING
AT ALEXANDRETTA IN THE CHURCHYARD
or Marrakoupr.*
1. Coat of arms: a bend bearing three
roses on a field semée of fleurs-de-lis. C
on a knight’s helm a dove volant.
MARTINVS LOE LONDONENSIS
TRIA FERE LY:
= | QV Loco ADEO I
AVDIANT | VIR OFFICIO
> SI QVIS ALMO
SPARTAM QVAM NAC
IMMATVRO FATO
svo ET
| NVILI FLIBILIOR gv.
AFFLITISSIME | BINIS I
OPTIMO MARITQ HOC
SACRAVIT.
VIDVARVM
MARTINO ET MARIA | QV
MONVMENTVI
2. No coat of arms
HIC IACET
D. LYCIA VXOR Q. D. MARTINI LOE
CONSVLIS PRO S. M, BRITTANICA
SCANDERONE
VIXIT ANNI L. OBIIT DIE XII JVLIL
mpce.
It would appear that this lady continued
to live in Alexandretta for twenty-three
years after the death of her husband.
3. No coat of arms.
‘OSITVM EDMY’
CLARIS PARENTIBVS ORTI APVD KETTERING AGRO
NORTHAMTONIENSI QVI REI MERCATORVM GRATLE
IN ALEPPO ALIQVOT ANNOS VI
CORREPTYS ET IN PATRIAM SVAM 1
PATRIMONIO SATIS AMPLO DITATAM REV
ERTA PRIVS MAGNI PRETIL MARGARITA FIDE
ITENTIA AD CELESTEM
T QVARTO DIE JANVARIT
‘SIMO OCTAVO
687/8.
4, Arms: a chevron between three frogs.
IOHAN:
IN AGRO
NES WILS(
+ MORI HONESTA
NTIQVATO | ANGLORVM MERCATORVM RES
HIC LOCI SYMMA CVM FID |'SVMMA CVM LAVDE PER
OS GESSIT | VIR QVI OFFICIO SVO ET
2 VNQVAM QVINDE DEFVI| FATO AH!
\IMIS IMMATVRO IN LOCO INSALV BERRIMO |
CVM TRIGINTA ET OCTO ANNOS SYMMO CVM HONORE
SVPERASSET | IPSISSIMO DIE ANNO AVTEM SALVTIS
CHRISTANE MDCCXII | ABREPTYSV FTI.
3, Wel have forbornetto pepper these ineoriptiors
with “(séc).”_ ‘The errors are in the original.
94 NOTES AN
D QUERIES. = gis. xu. ac
5. No coat of arms.
rH THE BODY 0
OF LIAM [si
FACTOR MARINE
SMBER THE
6 and 7. Two broken gravestones of large
size and very heavy, of a curious dark-blue
colour, decorated with well-executed coats
of arms. 1. On the husband’s stone is
represented a coat of arms: party per pale,
semée of trefoils, a lion rampant; a cross
saltire indented between four eagles dis-
played; surmounted by a knight's helm,
with the crest, a demi-lion rampant holding
atrefoil. 2. On the lady's stone is the same
7ZEBETH SHOLL
HOLL BRITISH
) THIS LIFE
Facrors Martine (CONSULAR AGENTS OF
Martin Loe
Thomas Jenkins
John Wilson
John Purnell
Will. Beaver Neale 1847-1853
Barnaby Murphy 1853-1856
Lewis John Barbar 1856-1859
Arthur Raby 1859-1863
f. Grabscheid 1863-1871
1871-1877
1877-1900
E. Franck
A. Catoni
The presence of English tombs in the
ancient trade centres of the Levant is an
evidence of the extensive operations of the
once flourishing Levant Company. Many
of these interesting memorials have, perhaps,
still to be discovered, but many are possibly
only preserved in the journals and notes
made by European travellers in former
times. Such, for instance, are those noted
in Turnfort’s ‘ Voyage du Levant’ of 1717,
as existing at Angora :—
* Charles Usgate gives an inventory, on occupy-
ing the Consulary House as Pro-Vice-Consul, of the
brass locks and keys, weights, and a flagstaff and
flags, belonging to the Right Worshipful Company,
dated 15 Dec., 1766.
BOMBAY GENTLEMEN OF 1792: WI
Tue subjoined bit of the past should, perhaps,
prove of interest to present-day East-Indian
commercial or antiquarian circles; if so, it |
would please me much to see collected and
preserved whatever may be known to those
circles concerning any of the characters
named on the list at the end of this paper.
The Capt. Robert Williams (1753-1834)
therein noted, long a respected merchant
and shipowner at Boston, the capital of
| ¢
| coat of arms reversed, and surmounted by @
coronet of nine pear!
1..**%re_. lyes.| #***hn vet 99" at
Aleppo | ****ere | **** of London | **** very
tender regard | **** beloved wife | ****tion i
his will | ****e same place | ****ing in their lives
| ****hght not be divided | ****er 16th 1730
+*** years | ****hn and Francis | ***#lotta his
wife | **** stone | **** the dec pa | #5** ree
spective tombs | ****ther | **#*ish merchant |
****DD0.
2, Here lyes | **** of Charlotta Levett. | ****
John Levett. | ****hant of Aleppo | **** Peter
Armond de Peleran | **** French Nation at
Aleppo | **** his wife | **** and | **** towards
her.
tHE Levant Company), ALEXANDRETTA.
‘Tomb inscription.
D’Arvieux, ‘ Mémoires,’ vi. 521.
Cert. as V.C. 3 May, 1706, P.R.O. and tomb.
Cert. as V.C. 29 Nov., 1727, P.R.O.
Documents, P.R.O.*
” » and tomb of wife.
Foreign Office List.
”
”
HIC IACET INTERRATVS
D. ES ROOS
SCOTVS QVI OBIIT IN AN
GORA DIE 22 IVNIT AN:
DOMINI M. D
ETATIS SV.
ANNORVM
HODIE MIHI. CRAS TIBI,
HIC IACET
SAMVEL FARRINGTON
S$ OBDORMIVIT
SALVTIS MDCLX.
Gro. Jerrery, F.S.A.
| Cyprus.
LLIAMSES OF EARLY BOSTON, MASS.
Massach usetts, was fourth or fifth in line
of descent from another Robert Williams
(1640 ?-95), in all likelihood of actual Welsh
nativity, this earlier namesake being cer-
tainly active in the beginning of the Bos-
tonian colonial coast settlements, when being
able to read and write with ease—and
“Magistrate Robert Williams” affected
both—marked the one so endowed as a high-
toned “ ristocrat.” No one but Hawthorne,
G18. XII. Jury 24, 1915.)
NOTES AND QUERIES.
61
LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY
CONTENTS.—No. 291.
‘NOTES :—The Levant Company in Smyrna, 61—Seven-
teenth-Century Travel in Europe, 63— Statues and
Memorials in the British Isles, 65—‘It is more than a
crime, it is a blunder” —Parish Registers—The Last
Toilette, 66—The Empires of the Air and Sea—Thomas
James Mathias—John Chapman, Publisher, 67.
JUERIES :—Madame Vigée Le Brun—John de Watford—
George Dibdin Pitt's Dramas, 67— High Sheriffs of
Counties—Authors of French Quotations Wanted—Sub-
dedication of Naves in Monastic Churches—Burlesque
Sermon—Cambronne’s Reply— Webster Vocalist—“ Prince
of Wales's Tavern,” near Sloane Street— Author and
Correct. Version Wanted — Mrs. W. H. Trinder, 63 —
Biographical Information Wanted — Source of Rimes
Wanted — Kirkover, Miniature Painter — Chilcomb —
Roxzet de Lisle—Best En; Historical Novel—Author
and Translator Wanted, 69.
REPLIES :—The Site of the Globe, 70—Waterloo—“The
Ice Saints,” 71— ‘L'Intermédiaire’: Comte Axel von
Schwering—Agnes, Daughter of Louis XI.—Parish Regis-
ters, 72—Clerks in Holy Orders as Combatants—James
NOTES ON BOOKS :—The Oxford Dictionary.
‘Engravings and Books on Art.
‘The Future of ‘Notes and Queries.’
‘Notices to Correspondents.
Motes.
THE LEVANT COMPANY IN
SMYRNA.
SmyRNA was an important station of the
Company during the eighteenth century—
Aleppo having somewhat declined as the
centre of the overland trade with the nearer
East. But Smyrna was very much
modernized and altered during the nineteenth
century, and the old Consulate with its
private chapel in Frank Street, the merchants’
houses, and even the old cemeteries have all
disappeared. A friend in Smyrna writes
me :—
“ There was a British cemetery just in the centre
of Smyrna containing many interesting monuments,
‘but it was sold for the paltry sum of 300., which
scarcely paid for the removal of the gravestones to
a new cemetery outside the town (some years ago).”
In the graveyard of the Armenian Cathe-
‘dral in Armenian Street was formerly a
gravestone to the memory of Capt. John
Mozer, an Englishman who died in 1637.
At this date the English evidently possessed
no cemetery of their own.
Spon and Wheeler visited Smyrna in 1674
during their tour, and were entertained by a
large English colony. Several of the mer-
chants’ names are recorded, and Mr. Ricaut,
author of the ‘Present State of the Greek
Church,’ was then acting as Consul.
Another traveller of the same period was
the Rev. Thos. Smith, Fellow of Magdalen
College, who describes the enthusiasm of the
English Smyrna merchants for antiquities,
and their practice of visiting the ruins of
Ephesus every autumn (‘Remarks on the
Turks, &c.,’ London, 1678).
In 1717 De Tournefort (‘Voyage du
Levant,’ Paris. 1717) describing the bonne
c which he enjoyed at the French
Consulate mentions the presence of the
English Consul and a considerable com-
munity.
The growing importance of the colony
during the seventeenth century is shown by
the demand for a ‘‘ preacher” or chaplain
in 16: (Court Minutes, 28 Feb., 1635.
Epstein’s ‘ History,’ 1908).
The English colony in Smyrna of the
eighteenth century has disappeared without
leaving any records, beyond the occasional
references to be found in books of travels,
and the Court Minutes preserved in London.
The consular house and chapel, and the
merchants’ premises of the period, having
been pulled down, and rebuilt in a modern
style, there is little to record the presence of
the Levant Company outside the cemetery.
But, unfortunately, the interments have been
removed to a cemetery near the Caravan
Bridge, which crosses the river Meles, some
distance from the centre of the town.
The merchants of Smyrna at the present
day live in their villas at Boudja and
Bournabat—suburbs at some distance from
the town—and they have their English
churches and cemeteries in these two places.
The following list of such memorials as
survive of members of the English Levant
Company buried in Smyrna is copied from
arecord at the Consulate. This list was made
at the time when the old cemetery was sold
for a building site, and the remains were
transferred to the existing three cemeteries
of Caravan Bridge, Boudja, and Bournabat.
The number of British subjects residing
at Smyrna during the past two centuries
has, of course, been considerable. but any
thing like a complete list of burials in dif-
ferent parts of the place would be difficult
to obtain. The names on the few tombs
62
NOTES AND QUERIES.
QS. XII. Juny 24, 1915.
which escaped the consequences of trans-
ference are of interest, although they are all
so recent as the beginning of the nineteenth
century. They are the names of the most
important personages of the community in
the last years of the Levant Company, and |
some of them were the founders of the rich |
and flourishing Levant families of the
present day. |
Mr. R. D. Whittall has recently published |
an historical account of his family, which was
founded in Smyrna by his grandfather, |
Charlton Whittall, in 1812.
So late as 1878, Murray's ‘ Guide ’ devi tes
some space to the Smyrna Levantines :— |
“*Smyrna_ possesses a peculiar institution in its
Casinos or family clubs, founded by the English in
the last century. _Of these among others are the
‘European or English Casino’ (consisting of
British CEMETERY, SMYRNA.
Block F.
3. Sarrell, Philip, Constantinople
. Perkins, George, Smyrna
6. Barker, William, Smyrna
. Wilkin, Atkinson, Smyrna
Jackson, Thomas, Smyrna
. Fisher, John King, London
Jackson, John Ki
La Fontaine, James
Werry, Francis, Consul, Smyrna
Brant, Richard W., Smyrna
Whittall, Charlton, Smyrna
The English Cemetery in 1878 was situated
at the Caravan Bridge.
In many cases the Levantine families of
Smyrna and other parts of Turkey have
originated in the circumstances attending
the ownership of property by foreigners
residing within the Empire. Landed and
real estate could only be held by persons
qualifying as Turkish subjects until ve
recent times, and as a consequence many
foreign families, once established in the
country, were surrounded by difficulties in
the disposal of their property whenever they
attempted to leave. Such matters were the
causes of interminable disputes and litigation
in the consular courts, and involved the
ambassador in much trouble and diplomatic
busin Russell in his ‘ History of Aleppo ’
refers to the action of the French Government
in dealing with Levantines at the end of the
eighteenth century
“Besides the merchants, a number of French
subjects of inferior rank find their way to the
Levant, and, by intermarriage with the native
Admitted to the Levant
Company.
Levantines and Armenians), next to the English
Consulate, and the ‘Greek Casino’ (supported by
the Greeks). A stranger can get admission for
three months on the application of a friend, and, if
in the ball season, receives invitations for himself
and family. The Casinos are supported by sub-
scriptions of members, and have a news-room, ball-
room, &e. At the carnival time, the only brief
season of gaiety in Smyrna, two or three balls are
given at each Casino. The persons invited are each
member of the Casino, and all his family residin;
under his roof, the widows and orphans of deceased!
members, and foreign members. The last ball is a
mask and fancy-ball. These balls no longer show
to any extent the local costumes of the country,
nor the rich display of diamonds once so striking.
French fashions are predominant now amongst the
native women, and there isa great display of
wealth and dress. The handsome English Levan-
tines no longer attend the Casinos, as the English
exercise their hospitality in their own houses. At
the balls gambling is carried on systematically and:
to a great extent.”
(Near the Caravan Bridge.)
Died.
26 March, 1839
14 Jan., 1835
July, 8
2 Jan., 18:
1
Boupsa Cemetery.
10 March, 1778
24 Jan., 1811
July, 1832
24 July, 1856
Bovrnasat CEMETERY.
13 Feb., 1812 1867 or 1868
Christians, produce a half-French race, or Me
Ra: A variety of inconveniences found to result
from the Consul being obliged to afford protection
to people who were often involved in low trans-
actions and disputes with Turks produced, not
many years ago, a royal edict by which all married
subjects of His Most Christian Majesty were
recalled from the Levant, and power was vested’
in the Consuls to remand instantly to France
subjects of whatever rank who should marry in
future without special licence obtained through
he Pintarsedoc at the Porte.”—‘ Hist. Aleppo,’
vol. ii. p. 1.
The English Government did not attempt
to exercise so peremptory a control over its
subjects settled in the Levant, although the
consular records are full of complaints about
the exactions of the Turkish officials, who
claimed authority to administer the affairs
of English subjects, and to consider the
children of Englishmen born within the
empire as Turks in as far as their properties
were concerned.
The Smyrna of the nineteenth century
was characterized by the presence of a large
US. XII. Jury 24, 1915.)
NOTES AND QUERIES. 68
number of what were known as “ Levantine |
families.” Wealthy merchants of all Euro- |
pean nationalities, who had settled in the |
town for the purposes of their trade in past |
times, found it inconvenient to leave, and as |
time went on the connexions springing up
between these foreigners and the cosmo- |
politan society of the place led to man:
families with English names being distin-|
guished amongst these ‘‘ Smyrna Levan-
tines.””
A reference in one of Sir W. Scott’s novels,
‘St. Ronan’s Well,’ which was written about
1830, suggests the idea that at the beginning
of the nineteenth century Smyrna was
looked upon as a rather gay sort of place:—
‘Ah, Tyrrel,” says Mr. Touchwood, one of the
principal characters in the novel, “the merry
nights we have had at Smyrna! Gad, 1 think the
ygammon and the good wine taste all the better in
a land where folks hold them to be sinful indul-
gence. Gad, I believe many a good Moslem is of
the same opinion—that same prohibition of their
Prophet's gives a flavour to the ham, and a relish
to the Cyprus. Do you remember old Cogia
Hassein, with his green turban? I once played him
trick, and put a pint of brandy into his sherbet.
id, the old fellow took care never to discover
the cheat until he had got to the bottom of the
flagon, and then he strokes his long white beard
and says, ‘Ullah Kerim’—that is, ‘Heaven be
merciful.’ Ullah Kerim, says the hypocritical old
rogue, as if he had done the finest thing in the
world!”
Sir Walter, a little further on, refers to the
project of cutting the Suez Canal as an idea
presented to the Pasha, by whom he pre-
sumably means Mohammed Ali. He speaks
of a bank by the local name of Ragion.
Gro. Jerrery, F.S.A.
Cyprus.
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL
IN EUROPE.
(See ante, p. 42.)
From the Low Countries the traveller
frequently made his way to Germany. It
was, perhaps, more general to travel in the
opposite direction—to proceed to France
and Italy from England, and then to cross
the Alps into Switzerland, taking Germany
and the Low Countries on the way home.*
But the other route was frequently followed.
Edward Browne passed that way in 1668.
After visiting Rotterdam, Leyden, Utrecht,
and Antwerp, he reached Brussels, where he
® Howell, ‘Instructions for Forreine Travel,’
see. xii, Preface to R. Lassels's “Voyage of Italy,’
found the people in high spirits over the
departure of Castel Rodrigo, the Spanish
Governor of the Low Countries. Their
patron saint, St. Michael, as they said, had
overcome and cast out the Devil," a pro-
ceeding one would much like to see repeated
to-day. From Brussels he made his way
to Cologne, and thence up the Rhine. Cologne
was a useful centre for the traveller. The
inns were good, many of the hosts speaking
Latin and their servants French,” and coaches
went once a week to Paris and other places.”
From Cologne there was a service of boats
drawn up stream “with great might and
maine *' to convey the traveller to Coblenz
and Mainz. Sir John Reresby, travelling
in the opposite direction, found the journey
very expeditious and agreeable ;* but any one
who has laboured up stream on the Rhine
will appreciate Edward Browne’s feelings
when he describes the journey as tedious,
and it was also considerably more expen-
sive! After a day or two Edward Browne
hired a coach to Coblenz, whence he
came by water again to Riidesheim, where
he had an opportunity of adding to his
father’s “closet of rarities” at Norwich.
He was shown a boy whose hair was thick
and woolly like a negro’s, but of a fine white
colour, “which being somewhat an odd
sight,” he writes, “I took away some of the
hair with me.’
The traveller on the Rhine must have
been considerably worried by the continual
stopping of the boat at the numerous toll-
houses. At the beginning of the seventeenth
century there were eleven customs towns
between Mainz and Cologne." The taxes
belonged to different princes, spiritual and
temporal, and as they were frequently farmed,
they were collected with the utmost rigour.
Travellers at the time, too, were expected
to take their turn with the oars. Rowing,
as Coryat remarks, is a fine enough exercise,
but it did not a little distaste his humour
to find himself obliged to row as well as pay
for his passage. At times rafts were strung
together for the conveyance of passengers
“ Ed. Browne, Letter, Sir Thos. Browne's
“Works ' (1835), i. 156.
» Ed. Browne's ‘ Travels’ (1687), 115.
© Letter, Ed. Browne, i. 84.
* Coryat’s ‘ Crudities ’ (1905), ii. 361.
* Reresby, ‘ Travels’ (1904), 108,
f Coryat, ii. 361.
® ‘Travels’ (1687), 118.
» Coryat, ‘Crudities’ (1905), ii. 295. Ed.
Browne. in 1668 noted ten customs towns-
(‘ Travels,’ 1685, 117).
1 Coryat, ii. 209.
12S. X. Apri 1, 1922.]
silence as to Mary Seymour,
seems worth raising.
What were Sir Edward Bushell’s
'* Was he any connexion of the Bushell
family of Liverpool, to whose head, the
late Mr. Bushell, there is a statue in that
city ? Hupert READE.
Pontrillas, Hereford.
this matter
arms ?
BRIDGE.
read the recent able
articles by Mr. W. D. Carée, F.S.A., in
The Journal of the London So y for
November and January last or heard the
equally valuable lectures on the same
subject by Mis the Lecturer in
History at the Univer: of London, will
be interested to hear that I have just
found two references to this bridge half a
century or so earlier than 1175, when Peter
de Colkirk is said to have built the first
stone bridge.
The first is before 1123 and occurs in a
charter of Henry I., printed by Stow in his
‘London’ (ed. Kingsford. 1908), p. 22,
directed to Ralph, Bishop of Chichester,
who died in that year (which fixes its date
between 1100 and 1123), and
certain lands given to Battle Abbé
be free (i.a.) from the works of London
Bridge. This charter is witnessed by
William de Pontlarche at Byrry, which I
take to be Bury in Hunts, a mile from Ram-
sey Abbey, of which place the chapel there
was confirmed to Ramsey Abbey by Henry I.
‘fs Chartulary of Ramsey,’ i., p. 246).
It is very strange that this entry should
have been missed by recent writers on the
bridge, but this may be accounted for by
the fact that the index to the reprint un-
luckily omits reference to i
The other new reference is in 1130/1, and
is to be found on the Pipe Roll of 31, Henry I.,
when Geoftrey, Ingeniator,
£25 for two arches of London Bridge. I
OLD LONDON
Taos— who have
would hazard the conjecture that he may be|
the Geoffrey de Valoines, the brother of the|
Robert de Valoines who in 1165/6, 1168 and|
1173 certified as to works at Orford Castle
(Pipe Rolls).
Rolls) till he w:
Alnoth, who received the same sala.
employed as ‘
succeeded by Alnod or
y and was
—* “Phe Memorials of Old Suffolk,’ p.
Bungay. but [ cannot find this in the Pipe Roll.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
was allowed |
Geoffrey received a regular}
salary of £10 12s. 11d., or 7d. a day (see Pipe}
Ingeniator” to destroy Fram-|
lingham* Castle in 1174/5 (Pipe Roll, p. 108). |
These new and earlier dates bring us back |
57, adds |
245
to the same period as the building of Bow
Bridge over the Lea by Queen Maud before
her death in 1135. Probably both bridges
were begun simultaneously.
The connexion of William de Pont de
l Arche with the grant of (ante) 1120isinterest-
ing, for he was the part re-founder of South-
wark Priory in 1106, andsuch Priory had much
to do with the erection of London Bridge.
Pont-de-l’Arche is a place-name in Nor-
mandy (Eure), or one might be tempted to
think that he took his name from this arched
bridge, the more especially as before 1134 he
is called William de Ponte Archarum
(Round’ s ‘French Documents,’ pp. 42 and
5i However, as I shall shortly be printing
a pamphlet which deals (i.a.) with him and
his family, I need not enlarge on it here.
IT am now trying to find out what may be
in Blomefield’s guess that Peter de Cole-
church or Colkirk, the bridge-builder, may
have been from Colkirk in Norfolk, and
shall be greatly obliged if anyone can refer
me to the first date on which the London
parish of Colechurch occurs, and also tell me
the surname of Richard, the Archbishop of
Canterbury who succeeded Becket and who
took a deep interest in the bridge.
Watter Rye.
JAMES FORT, ACCRA, GOLD COAST.
Tuts fort is now used as a Government
prison. Having occasion to visit the place
on business the other day, it struck me
| that the enclosed inscriptions, which I copied
from three tombstones in the old _court-
yard, would interest the readers of ‘ N. & Q.’
The stones are in excellent preservation
and are carefully tended by the authorities.
Sacred to the memory
of Basildon in the County of Berks.
‘This truly accomplished youth
departed this Life
on the 14th of January 1786
in the 17th year of his Age.
He was Midshipman on board the Grampus
Commodore Thompson when at
Anchor near Accra
in which Fort he was buried
with the customary Naval honors.
Blest with a warm and Generous Heart
Sincere in Friendship void of Art
Undaunted Courage filled his Mind
Where Sentiment and Truth combined
His various virtues made him blest
Most loved by those who knew him best.
246 OTES AN
His friends now grieve and all regret
He’s paid so soon great Nature's debt.
And as their grief they mutual share
Mutual admire parental care
That caused this monumental stone
To make his noble virtues known.
Requiescat in Pace.
Nore.—All the ‘‘s” letters are formed thus:
“po
JosepH Davis
o
Boston in North America
Master and Supercargo
of the American brig Cherub
died
at this place
27th Septt 1820,
Atat 46
This stone
upon which
the tears of a widow and brother have fallen
on the other side of the Atlantic
is laid by their care
To mark the spot which it covers
as the GRAVE of one
whom to know was to love.
and
to testify their gratitude to those STRANGERS
who shewed
to a man who deserv
the rites of Hospi
while he was living
when he was dead.
Here
Are deposited the mortal remains
t
Joun ANDERSON Esqt
Commander of Annamaboe Fort
aged 36 years
s death at Danish
th December 18:
ental discharge of a gun
In the hands of one
most intimate
This marb
is erected as a token of the I
Esteem and of sincere r
Felt by the unfortunate author
of his untimely fate
Accra
Requieseat in pace.
M. E. Lorena.
73, The Ridge, Accra.
YRAVE ” AND “‘ GRESSOM.”.
recent order paper of the House of Commons
stool the following notice of a question :—
‘ajor Christopher Lowther,—To ask the
Minister of Agriculture, whether he is aware that,
according to a survey taken in the 12th year of
Queen Elizabeth’s reign by the direction of Her
Majesty, there is a custom in the manor of Holm
Cultram, Cumberland, which directs that every
tenant anpointed by the jury or collector for
his turn for the year be the lord’s grave, i.e.,
—On a very|
D QUERIES. jigs. x. arrm1, 1922.
bailiff, and shall yearly collect and gather the
rents, revenues, and. issues within his charge
within the said lordship, and further that tenants
are liabl y the running gressom at the end
e
custom of the said lordship, which the grave has
also to collect ; that this custom is still in force ;
and whether, in view of the fact that a tenancy
is rendered very irksome by the obligation to
leollect rents and gressom, he will introduce
legislation for the compulsory enfranchisement of
jall lands held upon that or similar customs,
[Tuesday 14th March.)
Not only anarchwological but a philologicat
interest attaches to this question ; and the
two old words specially included therein
liavite attention. In the *‘N.E.D.,’ the
| first definition of “ grave,” in the sense
indicated here, is “a steward, a person
| placed in charge of property,” but this is
described as obsolete. An alternative defini
|tion is: “In certain parts of Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire, each of a number of
| administrative officials formerly elected by
{the inhabitants of a township.” The
| illustrative quotations range from c. 1200
to 1710; but there is none for “ lord’s
|grave,” ‘though, quaintly enough, there
jare two, respectively of 1524 and 1527,
|for “our lady greyffs” in the former, and
| “owr lady grayves ” in the second instance.
| As to “gressom,” it is to be noted that
| gressome is given in the ‘N.E.D.’ as “ variant
{of gersum,” the second and __ pertinent
definition of which, as a substantive,
| a premium or fine paid to a feudal superior
on entering upon a holding.” Illustrative
quotations for this meaning are given from
1389 to 1851; and it is specially interesting
| to note that in one of 1708, from * Termes
de la Ley,’ ‘“Gersum” is declared to be
“an obsolete Word, for a Fine or Sum of
Money.” In view of its present use, as
well as the present use of “ grave,” it seems
| rash to attempt authoritatively to label ony
word as “obsolete.” For “ running gressom”
|in Major Lowther’s question there is no
| iltustrative quotation in the ‘N.E.D.,’
but it seems to be constructed on the same
principle as “ hanging gale,” a term which
was freely used by politicians when dis-
cussing the Trish land difficulty forty years
ago. ALFRED ROBBINS.
is
SHAKFSPFARE AND THE Petican LFGEND.
—The legend of the pelican is found, as
Wright noted, in ‘Ratman vppon Bar-
tholome ’ (ed. 1582), fol. 18¢6 :—
The Pellican lovuath too much her children.
For when the children bee haught, and begin to
waxe hoare, they smite the father and the mother
WAIN) =o"
M68
Atliseellanca
Genealogica et Hervaldica.
EDITED BY
W. BRUCE BANNERMAN, F.S.A.
VOLUME II.
FOURTH SERIES,
LONDON:
MITCHELL HUGHES AND CLARKE, 140 WARDOUR STREET, W.
1908.
vi
MISCELLANEOU:
Lord Compton’
his Uncle, 240.
A Genealogical Puzzl
Bookplate,
The Manorial Society,
Quakers in Ireland, 2
Verses to
201.
MONUMENTAL
TIONS.
Alvaston Old Church, 106.
Annapolis Cemetery, No
Scotia, 11.
Bywell St. Andrew Church-
yard, 88.
Cawnpur Cantonment Ceme-
tery, 21, 61, 138, 164.
Dusselthal Cemetery,
seldorf, 251
Golzheimer Insel Cemetery,
Diisseldorf, 247.
Lourengo Marques Cemetery.
INSCRIP-
57.
Paxo Cemetery, 321.
Santa Maura Cemetery,
Santa Roco, Ionian Islands,
13, 71, 110, 146, 320,
‘Tannenwildchen Cemetery,
Diisseldorf, 250,
OBITUARIES.
Aldenham, Lord, 293.
PEDIGREES.
Campion, 261.
Capper, 7:
Chapman, 197.
Coates. 181.
Cocksedge, 117.
Croft, 4
Dale.
De la Chaumette. 176,
Delamere, 318.
Dinham, 17,
Dappa, 42
‘ington, 1.
Feud 90,
Galabin.
Gambier, 1
2, 150, 191, 192.
Lawes, 77.
Le Heup, 114, 157.
Lennard.
CONTENTS.
Lloyd, 68.
Mahoney, 293.
Montolieu, 160, 161,
Oswell, Royal Descent of, 61.
Oswell, 24,
Peers, 85.
Raffles, 154,
Rogers, 50,
‘Teulon,
Villiers,
Washington, 206,
Watlington, 244,
Watson,
Wilson. 124,
Wittewronge, 6, 74, 83.
Woodward, 4.
REVIEWS.
Bax, A. Ridley, F.S.A., “Al-
legations for Marriage
Licences for Surrey,” 143.
219, 298.
Berneau, C. A. “Interna-
tional’ Genealogical Di
tionary, b
Bewley, ‘Sir Edmund
“The Origin and Early
History of the Family of
Pot or Poe,” 179.
“¥enland ' Notes and
Queries.” 47, 96, 144, 220.
260, 300, 340,
Foster, W. E., “Notes on the
Foster Family of Dowsby
and Moulton,” 339.
Fox-Davies, A. C.,* Heraldic
Badzes,” 179.
Higgs, Miller, “The Spur-
geon Family,” 48.
Igglesden, C.,'“A Saunter
through Kent,” 180.
Isherwood, Grace, “ Monu-
mental ‘Brasses in Bed-
fordshire Churches,” 95.
“Journal of the Ex Libris
Society,” 47, 96, 144, 150,
260, 300, 340,
“Journal of Historical a
chwological Society.”
» Journal of the Association
for Preserving the Memo-
rials of the Dead,” 219.
Lawlor, H. C, “A History
of the Family of Cairnes
of Cairns,” 179.
Lea, J. H, and G.
H,, The
‘Ancestry and Posterity of
John Lea,” 95.
Le Blane Smith, “Haddo:
the Manor, the H:
Lords
143.
» its
and Traditions,”
of Teesdale and Wear-
dale,” 339.
Mills, James, “ Registers of
St. John the Evangelist,
Dublin,” 299,
“New York Genealogical
and Biographical Record,”
47, 96, 144, 180,
“ Northern Notes
Queries,” 96, 144, 180, 219,
259, 300, 340,
Richardson-Eyre, M. E. F.,
“A Chronicle of Strange
Experiences,” 298.
Sherwood, G. Pedigree
Register,
Speight. Harry, “ Nidder-
dale, from Nun Monkton
to Whernside,” 95.
“Surrey Parish Register
Society.
“The Virginia Magazine of
History’ and_Biography,"
47, 96, 144, 179, 219, 389,
VISITATIONS
Dorsetshire,
WILLS.
Bettesworth,
Bond,
Botetourt, Lord, 2
Edwards, 207,
Essington, 153,
Farrar, 275.
Fremeaux, 234.
Gambier, 198.
Goddard, 289,
Suffolk; Frances, Duchess of,
215.
‘Throkmorton, 216.
Trenchard, 2
Venning,
Vincent,
Walpole, 200,
Washington, 206.
Webster, 207, 209, 230, 276,
nc
o
MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA. 257
Genealogical Potes and Queries.
DUPPA FAMILY.
[Fourth Series, Vol. IL, p. 43.]
To THE EDITOR OF “MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA.”
,
The following notes may interest your contributor :—
(1) De Banco Rolls, 32 Hen. VI. Hereford.—Margaret Duppa claims against
various persons of Kingston, named Vaughan, for entering her close at_ Kingston
and assaulting and wounding her. (Plantagenet-Harrison’s vols. in P.R.O., x.,
284.)
(2) 29 Nov. 1800. B.D. Duppa of Hollingbourn Place, Kent, married Mary
Gladwin, daughter of General Henry Gladwin, (“ Familie Minorum Gentium,”
p. 617.)
Yours truly,
W. F. Carter.
[We insert the following with pleasure, as being the first contribution from a
Correspondent in Africa—Epiror.}
To THE EDITOR oF “ MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA.”
Sir,—I herewith send you a list of the names which appear on tombstones in
the Old Cemetery at Lourengo Marques, and which are supposed to be those of
British subjects.
Harry Pharamond, died Jan. 6th, 1867, aged 4 years.
Martin Beaver, died Feb. 18th, 1581.
Charles Burnett, died March 14th, 1881.
George Ephram Ferris, died Feb. 19th, 1881.
James Ormsby, died March 28th, 1881.
Walter Thompson, died March 24th, 1881.
So far as I know, the cemetery in question has no other name than the General
Cemetery of Lourengo Marques. It consists of a plot of ground which was owned
by a former Parish-priest (Portugue Roman Catholic), and was lent by him to the
town for so long as it should be used as a cemetery. The plot of ground was then
on the outskirts of the town, but now is in the very centre. This cemetery was
closed and the present one opened about 1887, and the heirs of the Parish-priest,
seeing that it has ceased to be used as a cemetery, are reclaiming the ground ; hence
the necessity of removing the remains.
‘There are no records whatsoever of the burials which have taken place in the
Cemetery.
I am informed by a former resident that a great many British subjects have
been buried in this cemetery, over whose graves no tombstone has been erected,
including: Mr. Evans, Mr. Purchase, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Barnet, Mr. Cox, Mr. Andrews,
Mr. Martin, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Peak, Mr. Foot, Mr, Geblesley, Mr. Franklin, Captain
Meikle, Mrs. Daintry and two children.
This is all the information I am able to give to the matter at present.
‘ § Believe me, Yours sincerely,
Box 444, Lourengo Marques, S. E. Africa. Tuos. Harysworts.
June 21st, 1906.
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